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June 16, 2020
Shorties (Recommended Books About Stonewall, Nick Cave's Favorite Books, and more)
Book Riot recommended books about Stonewall.
Nick Cave listed his favorite books.
Free eBooks today:
Against Police Violence
The End of Policing by Alexis Vitale
eBooks on sale for $1.99 today:
Claudius the God by Robert Graves
The Fifties by David Halberstam
On Love by Alain de Botton
A Queer and Pleasant Danger by Kate Bornstein
eBook on sale for $3.99 today:
A Rumor of War by Philip Caputo
The 2020 Americana Honors & Awards nominees have been announced.
Electric Literature recommended French books about family secrets.
All Things Considered remembered Les Paul on what would have been the guitarist's 100th birthday.
Michael Arceneaux discussed his new essay collection with BOMB.
Paste listed the best indie rock albums of 2020 so far.
The Guardian recommended books set in India.
Stream a new Adam Schlesinger tribute album.
Iowa Public Radio recommended summer reading.
Paste recommended the week's best streaming virtual concerts.
O: The Oprah Magazine recommended books about road trips.
Stream a new song by the Beths.
PopMatters shared an excerpt from The Art of Advertising by Julie Anne Lambert.
Rufus Wainwright played two songs from home for Rolling Stone.
Read new poetry by Claudia Rankine and Jericho Brown.
NPR shared a guide to LGBTQIA+ punk.
HuffPost recommended books by black authors everyone should read.
Canada's Polaris Music Prize has announced its 2020 longlisted albums.
The 2020 Walter Scott Prize for historical fiction has been awarded to Christine Dwyer Hickey for her novel The Narrow Land.
The Wolfson History Prize for historical non-fiction has been awarded to David Abulafia for his book The Boundless Sea.
Hanif Abdurraqib examined the musicality of protest chants at GEN.
Poets & Writers recommended summer's best debut novels.
Kazuo Ishiguro’s next novel will be published next spring.
Emily Temple discussed her debut novel The Lightness with Entertainment Weekly.
Temple shared an essay on writing the book at Literary Hub.
Vol. 1 Brooklyn interviewed author James Reich.
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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
