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May 19, 2020
Shorties (An Excerpt from Kate Zambreno's New Book, A New Grateful Dead Box Set, and more)
The New York Times shared an excerpt from Kate Zambreno's new book, Drifts.
Vinyl Me, Please announced the upcoming release of VMP Anthology: The Story of the Grateful Dead reissue box set featuring eight classic Grateful Dead albums on 14 LPs.
eBooks on sale for $1.99 today:
The Last Girl by Nadia Murad
Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
eBooks on sale for $2.99 today:
The Best American Short Stories 2018 edited by Roxane Gay
The Mystery of Three Quarters by Agatha Christie
eBooks on sale for $3.99 today:
Ducks, Newburyport by Lucy Ellmann
NPR Music and BrooklynVegan are sharing calendars of live online virtual concerts.
The Oxford American shared a new short story by Ashleigh Bryant Phillips .
World Cafe and The Quietus profiled the band Sparks.
Newly digitized lending cards from Paris's Shakespeare and Company bookstore illuminate the reading lists of Ernest Hemingway, Gertrude Stein, and others,
Comedian Rekha Shankar recommended songs from fantasy soundtracks at Bitch Media.
Bustle recommended books to read during Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month.
DEVO's Mark Mothersbaugh discussed the music that influenced his life at Pitchfork.
The New York Times shared an excerpt from Maggie Doherty's book The Equivalents: A Story of Art, Female Friendship, and Liberation in the 1960s.
Is Bob Dylan the new Walt Whitman?
Bill Gates shared summer book recommendations.
NME examined the musical legacy of Ian Curtis.
Curtis Sittenfeld discussed her new novel with Town & Country.
Sittenfeld values the freedom that writing fiction allows her, especially to eschew moral judgment. “If the novel had a strong message, I would have just written an opinion piece,” she says. “I think that novels allow you to consider a lot of different ideas.”
The Guardian reviewed the book.
Inside Hook examined the pop culture life of Imogen Heap's "Hide and Seek."
The 2020 Nommo Award (for African speculative fiction) have been announced.
Kathleen Edwards discussed her forthcoming album with Rolling Stone.
William Sturkey has been awarded the 10th annual Zócalo Book Prize for his book Hattiesburg.
Stream a new Deradoorian song.
Taffy Brodesser-Akner has a new essay in the New York Times.
Chrissie Hynde covered Bob Dylan's "Standing in the Doorway."
Editors discussed the books they are looking to publish at Publishers Weekly.
Stream a new song by Sad13.
The New York Times shared an excerpt from Lionel Shriver's new novel The Motion of the Body Through Space.
VICE examined how history has marginalized the voices that built bluegrass.
Literary Hub recommended the week's best books.
The Quietus reviewed May's best cassette releases.
BOMB interviewed author Genevieve Hudson.
Book Marks recommended five books that offer a master class is reported nonfiction.
The NYPL has announced the 2020 Young Lions Fiction Award Finalists.
Two Largehearted Boy t-shirts are now available:
Round LHB logo shirt
"Books + Music = Largehearted Boy" shirt
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
