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February 28, 2020
Shorties (The International Man Booker Longlist, New Music from Palehound, and more)
The 2020 International Booker Prize longlist has been announced.
Stream a new Palehound song.
eBook on sale for $2.99 today:
Soccer Mommy's Sophie Allison broke down every track on her new album color theory at Pitchfork.
Noisey also interviewed Allison.
Paste recapped February's best books.
Morning Edition profiled the band Talk Talk.
Lily King talked books and reading with the New York Times.
NPR Music and Paste recapped February's best new songs.
Joe Dunthorne recommended coming of age novels at the Guardian.
Premier Guitar profiled Patterson Hood of the Drive-By Truckers.
The five finalists for the RBC Taylor Prize for non-fiction recommended their favorite Canadian non-fiction at CBC Books.
Green Left recommended new political albums.
Edwidge Danticat's collection Everything Inside has been awarded the 2020 Story Prize.
Stream a new Stephen Malkmus.
NPR Music listed February's best albums.
Stream two songs by The Big Net.
Gorilla Vs. Bear and Paste recommended the week's best new albums.
Stream a new Steve Earle song.
The A.V. Club previewed March's best books.
Yann Tieson shared three cover songs at Aquarium Drunkard.
The Guardian profiled author Anne Enright.
“I don’t do plottedness,” Enright says. “I do stories, I do slow recognition.”
Stream a new song by Many Voices Speak.
Electric Literature interviewed author Erin Morgenstern.
The National covered INXS's "Never Tear Us Apart."
Charles Yu discussed his new novel Interior Chinatown with Bookworm.
The New York Times recommended "52 books for 52 places."
Book Riot recommended books about mental health written by women.
Literary Hub shared a conversation between poets Dorothea Lasky and Julia Guez.
Rick Moody listed 10 albums that influenced him at The Rumpus.
The Creative Independent interviewed author Lisa Marie Basile.
also at Largehearted Boy:
previous Shorties posts (daily news and links from the worlds of music, books, and pop culture)
Atomic Books Comics Preview (the week's best new comics and graphic novels)
Book Notes (authors create playlists for their book)
Flash Dancers (authors pair original flash fiction with a song
Librairie Drawn & Quarterly Books of the Week (recommended new books, magazines, and comics)
musician/author interviews
Note Books (musicians discuss literature)
Short Cuts (writers pair a song with their short story or essay)
weekly music release lists
