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April 2, 2020
Shorties (The Booker International Prize Shortlist, An Oral History of the Film High Fidelity, and more)
The 2020 shortlist for the Booker International Prize has been announced:
The Adventures of China Iron by Gabriela Cabezón Cámara
The Discomfort of Evening by Marieke Lucas Rijneveld
The Enlightenment of the Greengage Tree by Shokoofeh Azar
Hurricane Season by Fernanda Melchor
The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa
Tyll by Daniel Kehlmann
Consequence of Sound shared an oral history of the film High Fidelity.
eBooks free today:
many titles from Archipelago Books
several titles at Verso Books (through April 2nd)
eBooks on sale for $1.99 today:
All the Stories of Muriel Spark by Muriel Spark
History of Wolves by Emily Fridlund
eBook on sale for $2.99 today:
Into the Beautiful North by Luis Alberto Urrea
NPR Music and BrooklynVegan shared calendars of live online virtual concerts.
The Evergreen Review shared new writing from Laurie Stone.
The A.V. Club listed the 50most important American indie films.
Tommy Orange interviewed Louise Erdrich at High Country News.
SPIN interviewed singer-songwriter M. Ward.
Caribou's Dan Snaith discussed his new album with All Things Considered.
Lissie shared a live virtual session for The Current.
Paste recapped March's best albums.
The Christian Science Monitor interviewed poet Joy Harjo.
Waxahatchee covered Caroline Polachek's "So Hot You're Hurting My Feelings."
Vol. 1 Brooklyn, Vogue TIME, PopSugar, and Amazon
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution recommended music documentaries to stream.
Authors recommended books for social distancing at O: The Oprah Magazine.
BrooklynVegan recapped March's best songs.
The Guardian recommended Irish Gothic novels.
Cloud Nothings’ Dylan Baldi shared a batch of demo recordings.
Enropy interviewed author Siân Griffiths.
BrooklynVegan recommended the year's best albums so far.
Matt Bell has launched a mailing list featuring writing instruction.
NME ranked R.E.M.'s best albums.
The 2020 shortlist for the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction has been announced:
The Narrow Land by Christine Dwyer Hickey
The Parisian by Isabella Hammad
The Redeemed by Tim Pears
Shadowplay by Joseph O’Connor
A Sin of Omission by Marguerite Poland
To Calais, in Ordinary Time by James Meek
Stream a new Purity Ring song.
Shondaland recommended books for the perfect literary escape.
Katie Dey covered "Taxi Ride" by Tori Amos.
Julien Gasc shared three cover songs at Aquarium Drunkard.
Nick Flynn shared collages at Literary Hub.
Amber Mark covered Nirvana's "Heart-Shaped Box."
Vundabar covered Songs: Ohia's "Farewell Transmission."
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
