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April 29, 2020
Shorties (Lawrence Wright on His New Novel, Lydia Lunch on Her New Documentary, and more)
Lawrence Wright discussed his novel The End of October with All Things Considered.
This actually started a decade ago when Ridley Scott had asked me to write a screenplay. He had read the Cormac McCarthy novel The Road -- this post-apocalyptic [story of a] father and son wandering through the ruins of civilization. But there's no explanation about what happened. And that was what his question to me was: What happened? What force or event would have been so powerful they would bring down civilization?
The Quietus interviewed Lydia Lunch.
You once said, “Everything I do is a memoir, my whole body of work is self-documenting.” Why then was it time to make a documentary?
LL: Well that was exactly my question when Beth B approached me. And it’s a very good question because I’m not dead yet. But first of all, it was time to do a documentary because everything I’ve been saying seems more pertinent now than ever. I’ve been talking about everything from climate change to the abuse of power - both sexual and political - for 40 years. Another reason is that I’ve worked with so many different people that it is to showcase and highlight them as well. I think that a lot of people might have heard one of my records or seen one of my spoken word shows and assume they know what I do. But what I do is forever transforming. And I wouldn’t have done it with anybody except for Beth B, who I’ve worked with since the late 70s, so it was time at least for volume one.
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The Anthology of Scottish Folk Tales
Cosmos by Witold Gombrowicz
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Welcome to Marwencol by Mark E. Hogancamp and Chris Shellen
NPR Music and BrooklynVegan shared calendars of live online virtual concerts.
A graphic novel chronicling jazz great Charlie Parker's time in Los Angeles, Chasin’ the Bird: Charlie Parker in California, will be published in September.
NPR Music shared songs about the pandemic.
Words Without Borders recommended released or forthcoming titles in translation.
Paste recapped April's best songs.
Vanity Fair profiled Stephen King.
The A.V. Club previewed May's best new albums.
Singaporean authors recommended books that bring them comfort at the Straits Times.
Ned Raggett recommended albums recorded in scared spaces at Bandcamp Daily.
The Inseparables, a previously unpublished novel by Simone de Beauvoir, will be published next year.
Paste listed the best folk songs of 2020 (so far).
Electric Literature shared a new short story by Chance Dibben.
Vulture ranked Fiona Apple albums.
Apple discussed her new album, Fetch the Bolt Cutters, at Democracy Now!.
Bitch Media interviewed authors Gabby Noone and Sue William Silverman.
Bandcamp Daily recommended April's best experimental releases on the service.
Cartoonists discussed their coronavirus-inspired strips with the New York Times.
The Quietus interviewed Benjamin John Power of Blanck Mass.
Bitch Media interviewed poet Danez Smith.
PANK reviewed Smith's poetry collection Homie.
Stream a new song by Eve Owen.
Full Stop interviewed author Wendy Kline.
Nick Cave covered T. Rex's "Cosmic Dancer.
C Pam Zhang recommended novels about moving at the Guardian.
Literary Hub shared an excerpt from Nina Renata Aron's memoir Good Morning, Destroyer of Men’s Souls.
The Virtual Book Channel interviewed Aron.
Book Riot recommended books that will change the way you look at books.
Wired examined how the pandemic is changing how people buy books.
Literary Hub shared a literary guide to New Zealand.
Elizabeth Kadetsky recommended memoirs-in-essays at Literary Hub.
The Rumpus shared a new poem by Kathleen Ossip.
Stream a new song by Bowerbirds.
Rufi Thorpe recommended books where ordinary people witness the extraordinary at Literary Hub.
The Millions interviewed author Imbolo Mbue.
LitReactor shared an excerpt from Kathe Koja’s short fiction collection Velocities.
Sara Sligar discussed her debut novel Take Me Apart at the Debutiful podcast.
Literary Hub recommended the week's best new books.
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
