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March 25, 2020
Shorties (Ruchika Tomar Awarded the PEN/Hemingway Award, A Manu Dibango Mixtape, and more)
Ruchika Tomar has been awarded the PEN/Hemingway Award for best debut novel for A Prayer for Travelers.
Aquarium Drunkard shared a mixtape featuring music by Manu Dibango, who passed away this week.
eBook on sale for $1.99 today:
Approaching Oblivion by Harlan Ellison
NPR Music is keeping a calendar of online live virtual concerts.
R.I.P., playwright Terrence McNally.
Pitchfork recommended winter albums you may have missed.
Austin City Limits has made many of its episodes free for streaming, including all of the past two years' shows.
WIRED examined Covid-19's impact on libraries and their communities.
Stream a new Bright Eyes song.
Katy Simpson Smith recommended poetry collections by women rewriting history at Electric Literature.
Paste listed the best Sufjan Stevens songs.
Ernesto Quiñonez discussed his novel Bodega Dreams with Entertainment Weekly.
Stream a new song by Affectionately,
Christos Tsiolkas recommended books about shame at the Guardian.
PopMatters listed the best Tom Waits songs.
Cai Emmons recommended books about bodies at Literary Hub.
Stream a new Young Knives song.
Deb Olin Unferth shared how she wrote her novel Barn 8 at Granta.
"I also leaned into the funny. Humor can be used to conjure or express all kinds of emotions: bitterness, revelation, kindness, joy, rage. I described aspects of the farm industry in a way that was accurate but truly absurd."
DIY profiled the band Sorry.
OUPblog recommended classics for comfort reading.
Stream a new song by Nadine Shah.
MoMA features a new comic by Gabrielle Bell.
Stream a new TOPS song.
Big Other interviewed author D. Harlan Wilson.
M. Ward shared two cover songs at Aquarium Drunkard.
Electric Literature interviewed author Clare Beams.
Stream a new Dirty Projectors song.
Stream a new Sondre Lerche song.
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
