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April 30, 2020
Shorties (Sally Rooney on Helping Adapt Normal People for Television, Friends Remembered John Prine, and more)
Sally Rooney talked to the Los Angeles Times about adapting her novel Normal People for television.
Friends and collaborators remembered John Prine at Vulture.
eBooks on sale for $1.99 today:
Black Hawk Down by Mark Bowden
Christadora by Tim Murphy
eBook on sale for $2.99 today:
Bad Girls Throughout History by Ann Shen
NPR Music and BrooklynVegan shared calendars of live online virtual concerts.
The Washington Post recommended May's best books.
Lucinda Williams discussed the influential music of her life with Pitchfork.
The Christian Science Monitor recapped April's best books.
Daughter of Swords played a Tiny Desk Concert.
Stream a new Daughter of Swords song.
The Guardian pointed out the online exhibition Women in Comics: Looking Forward and Back.
Paste recapped April's best albums.
The 2020 Wolfson History Prize shortlist has been announced:
The Boundless Sea: A Human History of the Oceans by David Abulafia
A History of the Bible: The Book and Its Faiths by John Barton
A Fistful of Shells: West Africa from the Rise of the Slave Trade to the Age of Revolution by Toby Green
Cricket Country: An Indian Odyssey in the Age of Empire by Prashant Kidambi
The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper by Hallie Rubenhold
Chaucer: A European Life by Marion Turner
The CBC examined how the covid-19 epidemic is changing how we listen to music.
The Los Angeles Times profiled author Lawrence Wright.
Stream a new song by Spice (featuring Ceremony frontman Ross Farrar and drummer Jake Casarotti).
Electric Literature interviewed author
Aquarium Drunkard interviewed Stephen Malkmus.
The OTHERPPL podcast interviewed author Rowan Hisayo Buchanan.
Stream a new Mourn song.
The Los Angeles Review of Books interviewed author Elizabeth Kadetsky.
Stream a new Thom Yorke song.
The Ringer remembered author Charles Portis.
Aquarium Drunkard recommended Bancamp releases.
BuzzFeed recommended short story collections.
Literary Hub shared an excerpt from Greil Marcus's book Under the Red White and Blue: Patriotism, Disenchantment and the Stubborn Myth of The Great Gatsby.
Kirkus reviewed Jason Diamond's forthcoming book The Sprawl.
Literary Hub shared an excerpt from Mieko Kawakami's novel Breasts and Eggs.
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
