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May 12, 2020
Shorties (Olivia Laing on Arthur Russell, The Future of Small Music Venues, and more)
Olivia Laing wrote about Arthur Russell (an excerpt from her new collection Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency) at the The Paris Review.
BOMB interviewed Laing.
Jim DeRogatis pondered the future of small music venues at the New Yorker.
BOMB interviewed Laing.
eBooks on sale for 99 cents today:
For Your Eyes Only by Ian Fleming
Goldfinger by Ian Fleming
Thunderball by Ian Fleming
eBooks on sale for $1.99 today:
Peony by Pearl S. Buck
The Water Is Wide by Pat Conroy
NPR Music and BrooklynVegan shared calendars of live online virtual concerts.
BuzzFeed recommended historical fiction.
Stream a new song by Thao & The Get Down.
The Toronto Star reviewed recently published graphic novels.
NPR Music remembered soul singer Betty Wright.
Jordan Farmer recommended books about the beauty and hardship of life in rural America at Electric Literature.
Marjane Satrapi discussed her Marie Curie biopic Radioactive with the Spectator.
Bitch Media recommended May's best books for feminists.
All Songs Considered spanned Little Richard's life in 10 song.
The Conversation examined how reading science fiction builds mental resiliency in young readers.
SPIN profiled singer-songwriter Jason Isbell.
Elizabeth Acevedo discussed her new novel Clap When You Land with Weekend Edition.
Vulture recapped spring's best albums.
Town & Country recommended May's best books.
SF Weekly profiled Geographer's Mike Deni.
Ultimately, Geographer is about orchestral and lush indie rock — and toying with classical arrangements, pop melodies and post-punk experimentation. The new album comes hot on the heels of 2019’s New Jersey EP, and even Deni is surprised that he worked so fast.
Publishers Weekly revealed its Summer Reads.
Stream a new song by the Beths.
Mental Floss recommended books by Asian American and Pacific Islander authors.
Stream a new song by H. Moon (Mary Onettes frontman Philip Ekström).
Entertainment Weekly recommended Curtis Sittenfeld's best books.
Omni shared two cover songs at Aquarium Drunkard.
TIME shared an excerpt from Bess Kalb's memoir Nobody Will Tell You This But Me.
She and Him covered the Beach Boys' "Darlin'."
them. and Library Journal interviewed poet Jericho Brown.
Instead of storytelling, explains Brown, he aims to create an environment or atmosphere—“because poems are about the atmosphere that makes us feel that a story has been told.” He likens poetry to catching a conversation unfolding on the other side of a wall. Initially, everything is out of context, but a certain resonance soon sets in, and readers start creating their own context.
Stream a new Dinosaur Jr. song.
Authors shared the best book teachers recommended to them at the New York Times.
Stream two new songs by Moses Sumney.
Electric Literature recommended novels about the masks we wear.
Stream a new Squirrel Flower song.
Haruki Murakami will DJ a two-hour radio show.
Rolling Stone profiled Lucinda Williams.
Brit Bennett and Emma Cline discussed their second novels with Entertainment Weekly.
Stream a new song by the Dead Tongues.
The Washington Post examined how independent bookstores are adapting during the pandemic.
The New York Times shared an excerpt from one of the year's best novels, Lydia Millet's Children's Bible.
The Millions recommended the week's best new books.
Tracy O'Neill talked books and reading with Book Marks.
Literary Hub shared an excerpt from Hao Jingfang's novel, Vagabonds.
The Best Translated Book Awards has named its 2020 finalists.
Sixtysix profiled author Emily St. John Mandel.
“The good thing that inspires me is just a love of story. I love writing,” she says. “The bad thing that inspires me is, once you quit your day job, that’s how you’re paying your mortgage. So there is this awareness at the back of my mind that this is how I’m paying for my life. I can’t not make the deadline. I can’t not write the book. There’s a combination of financial horror and artistry.”
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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
