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April 20, 2020
Shorties (Naoise Dolan on Her Debut Novel, Reflections on Elliott Smith's Figure 8 Album (Released 20 Years Ago), and more)
Naoise Dolan talked to the Guardian about her debut novel Exciting Times.
The Independent and Oregon Public Broadcasting looked back on Elliott Smith's Figure 8 album, released 20 years ago.
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Play It As It Lays by Joan Didion
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Elizabeth Warren by Antonia Felix
NPR Music and BrooklynVegan shared calendars of live online virtual concerts.
The Christian Science Monitor recommended April's best books.
The A.V. Club recommended the week's best albums.
Betsey Johnson discussed her self-titled memoir with All Things Considered.
The New Yorker profiled singer-songwriter Brittany Howard.
NPR Books interviewed cartoonist Tom Gauld.
The Guardian shared a new comic by Gauld.
The Athletic listed the best baseball songs of all time.
Hypebeast and the Daily Express recommended books for trying times.
Pitchfork examined an unpublished David Berman manuscript and its genesis.
The New York Times recommended books about climate change.
Stream a new Deerhoof song.
ELLE recommended books to read to improve your literary prowess.
Electrelane is considering a reunion.
Margaret Atwood shared her isolation activities with the Guardian.
Stream an unreleased Florence and the Machine song.
The Los Angeles Times interviewed author Ben Lerner.
Lee Ranaldo has started adding rarer releases to Bandcamp.
Sarah Shun-lien Bynum talked to the New Yorker about her story in this week's issue.
Burger Records has released a 7-volume Quarantunes compilation.
The Guardian profiled author Garth Greenwell.
The Rumpus interviewed author Kristen Millares Young.
The New York Times Book Review podcast interviewed author Samantha Irby.
The Los Angeles Review of Books interviewed author William Boyle.
T Kira Madden talked books and reading with Book Marks.
The 2020 L.A. Times Book Prize winners have been announced.
Elena Ferrante's next novel The Lying Life of Adults will be published September 1st in the U.S. and U.K.
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
