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April 3, 2020
Shorties (April's Best Debut Books, A New Song from Mavis Staples and Jeff Tweedy, and more)
Debutiful recommended April's best debut books.
Stream a new song by Mavis Staples and Jeff Tweedy.
eBooks free today:
many titles from Archipelago Books
eBooks on sale for $1.99 today:
Babel-17 by Samuel R. Delany
Bakkhai by Euripedes, translated by Anne Carson
Hotel Silence by Audur Ava Olafsdottir
eBook on sale for $3.99 today:
NPR Music and BrooklynVegan shared calendars of live online virtual concerts.
Granta shared a conversation between poets Morgan Parker and Rachel Long.
R.I.P., Cristina.
Cristina's small body of work was released on the ultra-hip label ZE Records, which also put out music by influential post-punk artists Kid Creole and the Coconuts, James Chance, and Lizz Mercier Descloux. The label was co-founded by her partner and eventual husband, the British-born Michael Zilkha, who persuaded Cristina to record her debut single, "Disco Clone," as a lark — but she ended up elevating the material, filtering it through an ironic sensibility informed by her interest in camp and theater.
Lizzie Skurnick talked to All Things Considered abut her anthology Pretty Bitches.
Paste previewed April's best albums.
Bookworm interviewed author Harry Dodge.
Alicia Keys discussed her memoir More Myself with Bustle.
PopSugar listed must-read 2020 books written by women.
Stream a new song by Jenny Hval.
The New York Times recommended the week's best books.
L7’s Donita Sparks has launched a weekly online variety show.
BuzzFeed shared an excerpt from Casey Schwartz's memoir Attention: A Love Story.
Kevin Devine has launched a Patreon.
Electric Literature interviewed author Ted Chiang.
Stream a new song by Radiohead guitarist Ed O'Brien.
Maggie O’Farrell talked books and reading with the Guardian.
Stereogum reconsidered Lou Reed's Ecstasy album on its 20th anniversary.
The Guardian reviewed Jami Attenberg's novel All This Can Be Yours.
Attenberg weaves her narrative with a scintillating and often wry prose; her love for her characters, and her keen interest in their joys and longings, never fails to shine through. Often she sets scenes with the terseness of a screenplay, but periodically she plunges into rich description, as when Twyla, crying, looks in the mirror and notices “lips in distress, cracked at the edges, only half the color left behind, the other half disappeared, god knows where, absorbed into skin, into air, into grief”.
Stream a newly remastered print of the Guided By Voices documentary Watch Me Jumpstart.
The Hindu recommended literary documentaries.
Stream a new Jenny Lewis song.
The But That's Another Story podcast interviewed author Min Jin Lee.
Aquarium Drunkard shared a recording of a 1985 Arthur Russell performance.
FOLIO shared a list of resources for freelance journalists during the Covid-19 epidemic.
Stream a new Iceage song.
Big Other interviewed author Meghan Lamb.
NPR Music recommended the week's best new albums.
Stereogum reconsidered Smog's Dongs of Sevotion album on its 20th anniversary.
Aquarium Drunkard interviewed musician Markus Floats.
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
