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May 22, 2020
Shorties (Summer Book Previews, Owen Pallet on His Surprise New Album, and more)
Vulture and BuzzFeed recommended summer's best books.
Owen Pallett shared albums that influenced his surprise album Island at Brooklyn Vegan.
eBooks on sale for $1.99 today:
Maurice by E.M. Forster
The Tiger's Wife by Teah Obreht
eBooks on sale for $2.99 today:
The Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane Jacobs
Napoleon by Andrew Roberts
eBook on sale for $4.99 today:
Martha Stewart's Organizing by Martha Stewart
NPR Music and BrooklynVegan are sharing calendars of live online virtual concerts.
The Rumpus, the Washington Post, and Literary Hub offer calendars of online virtual literary events,
Yo-Yo Ma talked books and reading with the New York Times.
Stream a previously unreleased live song by Elliott Smith.
Curtis Sittenfeld discussed her new novel Rodham with People and the Washingtonian.
The A.V. Club interviewed the Beastie Boys' Adam Horovitz and Mike Diamond.
Sigrid Nunez considered the books of Garth Greenwell at the New York Review of Books.
Rolling Stone interviewed Black Francis.
Megan Stielstra talked about teaching writing with Electric Literature.
Cover Me shared a selection of cover songs performed by Grant Lee Buffalo.
Megan Abbott wrote about missing bars at the New York Times.
SPIN listed the best albums of 2020 (so far).
BuzzFeed recommended books to read during quarantine to make you feel like you are traveling.
Bandcamp Daily recapped the platform's best experimental music in May.
Bitch Media interviewed Lindsay Sproul about her novel We Were Promised Spotlights .
Guitar World profiled Kim Gordon.
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel recommended books for summer reading.
Morning Edition interviewed singer-songwriter Damien Jurado.
SheKnows recommended dystopian books to get through quarantine.
Califone covered Elliott Smith's "Needle in the Hay."
The New York Times recommended the week's best new books.
Read John Darnielle's essay on the Grateful Dead.
Kate Zambreno discussed her new novel Drifts with the New York Observer.
“Conversations about genre often feel projected onto my work from the outside—from writing institutions, whether it be bigger publishing or academia—and in a way that isn’t exciting to me. I’m more interested in having a conversation about form or mood than genre.”
Brooklyn Vegan recommended the week's best new albums.
Ivy Pochoda took Interview magazine on a tour of the West Adams Los Angeles neighborhood of her novel These Women.
Sunny War shared four cover songs at Aquarium Drunkard.
Electric Literature interviewed author Genevieve Hudson.
Stream a collection of covers of John Wesley Harding songs.
The European Astrobiology Institute shared a free science fiction anthology, Strangest of All.
Stream Soccer Mommy and Jay Som covering each other's songs.
The 2020 Orwell Prize shortlists have been announced.
Kathy Valentine of the Go-Go's discussed her memoir All I Ever Wanted with American Songwriter.
GQ recommended May's best books.
The Rumpus interviewed author Rufi Thorpe.
Red Bull Australia recommended surfing books.
Celeste Ng talked books and reading with the Guardian.
Wisconsin Public Radio recommended books about nature.
Electric Literature interviewed author Samantha Irby.
Vol. 1 Brooklyn interviewed Michael J. Seidlinger about his new novel Dreams of Being.
NYC indie bookstores recommended books to read this holiday weekend at Time Out New York.
The Los Angeles Times recommended novels to read.
Granta shared an excerpt from Catherine Lacey's novel Pew.
The Guardian reviewed the book.
The Guardian reviewed Porochista Khakpour's essay collection Brown Album.
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
