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June 17, 2020
Shorties (An Interview with Donna Hemans, A New Album by the Microphones, and more)
Donna Hemans talked to The Rumpus about her novel Tea by the Sea.
The Microphones album in 17 years is coming in August.
Free eBooks today:
Against Police Violence
The End of Policing by Alexis Vitale
Stream a new song by Alison Mosshart.
BuzzFeed shard an excerpt from Elisabeth Thomas's novel Catherine House.
Bandcamp Daily shared a primer to Japanese hardcore.
The Christian Science Monitor recommended anti-racist books.
Louder shared the history behind Roxy Music's debut album.
Electric Literature shared a new story by Kate Doyle.
The Guardian profiled NYC's Carmine Street Guitars.
Zaina Arafat discussed her debut novel You Exist Too Much with Bitch Media.
“As a journalist I found it frustrating that you could only ever tackle these topics head on. I felt as if I could get to the end of my life and have written 1,000 things, if I wanted to, about Palestine and Israel, and none of it would’ve affected any change. I thought, in this case, if I created characters who happen to be Palestinian, I could subversively shift attitudes for Palestinians.”
A.O. Scott discussed book and film criticism at the New York Times.
The New York Times examined the rise of online bookseller Bookshop.org.
American Drunkard's Transmission podcast interviewed musician Lisa E. Harris.
Dwight Garner mourned the end of letter writing at the New York Times.
PopMatters interviewed singer-songwriter Butch Walker.
The shortlist for Australia's 2020 Miles Franklin Prize has been announced.
Rolling Stone recommended social justice films available to stream online for free.
Entropy interviewed author Parker Tettleton.
Fresh Air recommended jazz biopics.
Book Riot recommended experimental writing by contemporary women authors.
Stream a new IDLES song.
Andrzej Tichý and his translator Nichola Smalley discussed his novel Wretchedness at Granta.
Rolling Stone interviewed Savages' Jehnny Beth.
Literary Hub shared Lorna Cervantes' poem from the anthology The BreakBeat Poets, Vol. 4: LatiNEXT.
Stream a new song by the Dead Tongues.
Katherine Hill discussed her novel A Short Move with The Millions.
Literary Hub recommended the week's best new books.
Largehearted Boy t-shirts are now available.
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
