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June 24, 2020
Shorties (An Excerpt from Adrian Tomine's Forthcoming Book, Diarmuid Hester on His Dennis Cooper Biography, and more)
The New Yorker shared an excerpt from Adrian Tomine's new book The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Cartoonist.
Diarmuid Hester discussed his book Wrong: A Critical Biography of Dennis Cooper at the Irish Times.
Drawing on almost 15 years of research into his life and work, in my study Cooper emerges in all his various incarnations: a literary pioneer, a radical anarchist, an attentive mentor, and, perhaps most shocking of all, a loyal and loving friend.
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The End of Policing by Alexis Vitale
Emma Swift covered Bob Dylan's "I Contain Multitudes."
Karla Cornejo Villavicencio discussed her book The Undocumented Americans with Code Switch.
"I wanted to tell the stories of people who work as day laborers. Housekeepers. Construction workers. Dog walkers. Delivery men. People who don't inspire hashtags or t-shirts. But I wanted to learn about them as the weirdos we all are outside of our jobs."
Killer Mike and El-P reflected on the influences behind the new Run the Jewels album at Esquire.
Susan Burton discussed her memoir Empty with Fresh Air.
There was a model for hiding. ... My mother was drinking, and I didn't, in those years, connect her addiction to alcohol with my addiction to food. Although I now do see them as connected. It could just as easily for me have been one substance over another. But the thing I was acutely attuned to was that we were both living these secret lives.
Hildegard von Blingin covered Radiohead's Creep in Medieval fashion.
Author Nicole Dennis-Benn shared the art that shaped her at The Cut.
Also, James Baldwin. Again, here is a Black man, who was speaking about race in America, but he was also talking about his own queerness. What that taught me was that there is something called intersectionality, and that it’s okay to occupy multiple identities, not ignore one voice for another, and that I can actually be my whole self and be taken seriously. Those are the people who made me who I am, and also inform my own work as a writer.
Pitchfork profiled musician Lyra Pramuk.
When Lyra Pramuk sits down at her computer to make music, it feels like she’s having a cosmic conversation with herself. On her astounding debut album, Fountain, composed entirely of her own vocals, the 29-year-old artist expands the limits of the human voice through vocal processing software, a method she compares to symbiosis. “I trip out and something playful emerges,” she says, shifting in her chair as she conjures up the memory. “It’s almost like trying to make a mirage.”
Sharlene Teo discussed teaching writing at Electric Literature.
I always tell my students writing a novel is like stringing pearls on a necklace. Each chapter or scene should gleam and pass muster (luster?) in its own self-contained way.
Stream a new song by Bonny Light Horseman (Anais Mitchell, Eric D. Johnson, and Josh Kaufman).
Amazon listed its best books of the year so far.
Bandcamp Daily shared intry points into Lungfish's discography.
O: The Oprah Magazine recommended books by women around the world to transport you.
PopMatters examined the legacy of the New Jack SWing movement of the late 1980s and early 1990s.
The Guardian recommended science fiction novels about remaking the future.
Stream a new song by the Sun Ra Arkestra.
The longlists for the Polari Prize and Polari First Book Prize for LGBTQ+ literature have been announced.
Stream a new song by Sigur Rós’ Jónsi.
The New York Times recommended July's best books.
Stream a new song by Hum.
The New York Times profiled author Virginie Despentes.
In “Vernon Subutex,” she created racist characters to explore their ways of thinking, leaving readers to draw their conclusions. “What’s wonderful with a novel is that there is space for complexity,” Despentes said. “People always have reasons to think as they do.”
Stream a new Old 97’s song.
CrimeReads interviewed author Ottessa Moshfegh.
Rumaan Alam shared a diary of his days at Vanity Fair.
Literary Hub recommended the week's best new books.
Stream a new Katie Dey song.
The New York Times interviewed author Naomi Alderman.
I’m interested in what people do in extreme situations. I’d read a piece in The New Yorker about technology billionaires investing in bunkers in New Zealand in order to survive any breakdown of society that they may themselves have ended up catalyzing or causing. That struck me as extremely fertile territory, the massive gap between the rhetoric of Silicon Valley and the reality.
Stream a new song by Boris.
Adrienne Maree Brown and Toshi Reagon have launched Octavia’s Parables, a podcast that discusses the works and life of Octavia Butler.
Stream a new song by Psychedelic Furs.
The OTHERPPL podcast interviewed author Brady Hammes.
Stream a new Elrichman song.
The Reading Women podcast interviewed author Wayetu Moore.
Stream a new song by Cults.
Literary Hub shared an imprtant new essay by Marie Mutsuki Mockett.
Stream a new Kelly Lee Owens song.
CrimeReads recommended books with characters who are bent but not broken.
The Quietus interviewed Jarvis Cocker.
The Mary Sue recommended reading books by Black science fiction authors to unlearn racism.
Some of our best thinkers, and certainly our most comprehensive hopers, have been sci-fi writers. N.K. Jemisin has given us black female demigods who, despite their powers, still somehow suffer at the hands of an oppressive society. Octavia Butler has given us shapeshifters, time travelers, and voyagers who all had to react and survive under patriarchy and racism. Ursula K. Le Guin was creating entire non-binary societies … in the 1960s.
Fiction Advocate interviewed author Meredith Talusan.
I think that’s one of the wonderful things about writing—you can compress and expand time. It’s the best medium for that. There isn’t the same expectation for time to move at a linear pace.
