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March 18, 2020
Shorties (Sinéad Gleeson on Her Essay Collection, Talking Heads-Inspired Sneakers, and more)
Sinéad Gleeson discussed her book Constellations with Entertainment Weekly.
One of the positives of an essay collection versus a memoir is that you can throw a bunch of things together. Maybe the piece about haunting grandmothers doesn’t relate to the piece about the church, or whatever. Maybe they do, but it was a way for me to put different subjects side-by-side that didn’t have to neatly connect together, like a linking chain. So, I thought of a constellation, like Orion’s Belt — there are 14 stars and 14 chapters in Constellations — a constellation is a collection of stars, and each star has a distinct and unique purpose.
Vans sneakers inspired by the talking Heads.
Paste recommended March's best audiobooks.
BuzzFeed shared an excerpt from Deb Olin Unferth's new novel Barn 8.
The New York Times examined how the pandemic is affecting musician road crews.
Anne Enright discussed her favorite books at The Week.
The Guardian recommended soothing songs to self-isolate with.
The Guardian recommended a dystopian reading list of books to read while quarantined.
Sharon Van Etten covered Lucinda Williams' If My Love Could Kill."
Variety recommended books to read to enrich your social-distancing life.
The Dallas Observer listed the best books by Texas authors.
Stream a new song by Waxahatchee.
InsideHook examined the literary legacy of Charles Portis.
The Quietus remembered Genesis P-Orridge.
Humanities Washington recommended books for uncertain times.
Authors are listing their #StayAtHomeSafeReads at Book Culture.
The Evening Standard recommended books to help get you through the pandemic.
BookMarks recommended great Irish novels not set in Ireland.
Authors shared the books they might finally read in quarantine at the Los Angeles Times.
The Guardian recommended books on female artists.
Vanessa Hua recommended books that tell the immigrant story at BookMarks.
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
