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April 22, 2020
Shorties (Nguyen Phan Que Mai on Her New Novel, Amoeba Music's Crowdfunding Campaign, and more)
Nguyen Phan Que Mai discussed her novel The Mountains Sing with Morning Edition.
Amoeba Music has launched a crowdfunding campaign to keep its doors open.
eBook on sale for $2.99 today:
Silent Spring by Rachel Carson
eBook on sale for $3.99 today:
The Sixth Extinction by Elizabeth Kolbert
NPR Music and BrooklynVegan shared calendars of live online virtual concerts.
The Cut shared an excerpt from Emily Gould's novel Perfect Tunes and also interviewed Gould.
Margaret Glaspy visited The Current for an interview and live performance.
BuzzFeed shared an excerpt from Veronica Roth's novel Chosen Ones.
Book Riot recommended nonfiction books about nature and climate change.
Hans Zimmer talked to the New York Times about creating a sonic signature for an electric car.
“I can sum it up, from Day 1 to now: It’s never finished, it’s always an experiment,” Mr. Zimmer said recently in a phone interview from London. “We’ve been trying to create sounds which are aesthetically pleasing and calming — sort of anti-road rage.”
Fresh Air interviewed Jennifer Finney Boylan about her memoir Good Boy.
After Boylan came out as trans in her 40s, she felt estranged from her previous life. She describes her new book as a "memoir of masculinity, kind of told the way an expatriate might speak of the country of their birth."
SPIN listed Fiona Apple's best songs.
New Jersey Monthly recommended books for baseball-starved fans.
L7 covered Joan Jett's "Fake Friends."
Salon shared a story from Madeline L' Engle's collection The Moment of Tenderness.
Stream a new Bright Eyes song.
The 2020 Women’s Prize for Fiction shortlist has been announced:
Dominicana by Angie Cruz
Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo
A Thousand Ships by Natalie Haynes
The Mirror and the Light by Hilary Mantel
Hamnet by Maggie O’ Farrell
Weather by Jenny Offill
Stream a new song by Angelo De Augustine.
Bitch Media interviewed Robin Ha about her graphic memoir Almost American Girl.
The Go-Gos' Kathy Valentine discussed her memoir All I Ever Wanted with SPIN.
Book Marks recommended books where the earth comes alive.
Stream a new song by Figg.
Souvankham Thammavongsa talked about his story collection How to Pronounce Knife with Electric Literature.
All these things we desire for ourselves, like love and hope, but they’re not like a rubber ball. They’re things we can’t see, but we feel them alone. Even when you fall in love, it’s brutal, because you’re alone with those feelings until the other person confesses or says it out loud. Even then, you don’t really know if that’s true, because you’re not inside that heart. I think hope and love are like that letter in knife, the silent k. They are things we know about and maybe see sometimes, but we agree to not say out loud.
The 2020 Bram Stoker Awards have behave been announced.
Literary Hub recommended recently published story collections.
Full Stop interviewed author Mary South.
The Pitt News profiled author Angie Cruz.
“If you're a good storyteller, you're able to make yourself — particularly women, who are often seen in mainstream narratives as a side character, the girlfriend, the wife — you can make yourself the protagonist,” Cruz said. “Even in the ways that you tell stories to yourself, you can recenter yourself as the protagonist. I think that's really useful as you move through the world, especially to feel empowered.”
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
