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April 15, 2020
Shorties (Two Interviews with Kathryn Scanlan, Brittany Howard Covered Funkadelic, and more)
Full Stop and Granta interviewed author Kathryn Scanlan about her story collection
Brittany Howard covered Funkadelic’s "You and Your Folks, Me and My Folks."
eBooks on sale for $1.99 today:
Euphoria by Lily King
The Heavens by Sandra Newman
NPR Music and BrooklynVegan shared calendars of live online virtual concerts.
Tor recommended technothrillers featuring digital surveillance and voyeurism.
The Current interviewed singer-songwriter Craig Finn.
Harper's Bazaar listed books to read while social distancing.
Paste recommended end-of-the-world songs.
Miranda July talked books and reading with Entertainment Weekly.
Rolling Stone examined Covid-19's effects on the music industry.
Vanity Fair recommended big books to read during quarantine.
PopMatters interviewed musician Jon Langford.
The Millions interviewed author David Moloney.
Moloney also recommended novels featuring difficult jobs at Literary Hub.
The Los Angeles Times interviewed legendary musician Van Dyke Parks.
Hyperallergic shared excerpts from Michael DeForge's graphic novel Familiar Face.
PBS has made John Prine's Austin City Limits episode available for free streaming.
The OTHERPPL podcast interviewed author Amanda Goldblatt.
The Houston Chronicle recommended music from around the world.
Debutiful's online reading series for debut authors will launch on April 16th.
Stream a new Muzz song.
Alex Trebek is publishing a memoir.
The New York Times shared a Broadway cast album starter guide.
Stream a new song by the Thurston Moore Group.
Stream a new Walter Martin song (that features Matt Berninger).
Built To Spill covered Daniel Johnston's "Mountain Top."
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
