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June 22, 2020
Shorties (Roddy Doyle on His New Novel, Katie Crutchfield on the New Waxahatchee Album, and more)
Roddy Doyle discussed his novel Love with Weekend Edition.
American Songwriter profiled Waxahatchee's Katie Crutchfield.
Free eBooks today:
Against Police Violence
The End of Policing by Alexis Vitale
eBooks on sale for $1.99 today:
Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto
The Ministry of Fear by Graham Greene
A Sport and a Pastime by James Salter
eBook on sale for $2.99 today:
Snow, Glass, Apples by Neil Gaiman and Colleen Doran
Black Sabbath is selling "Black Lives Matter" t-shirts, with all proceeds going to the Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation.
Paste listed the best Phoebe Bridgers songs.
Vogue profiled Bridgers.
Laurie Halse Anderson talked to The Nerd Daily about her new Wonder Woman graphic novel.
Tom Petty's estate has issued a cease and desist to the Trump administration over their use of "I Won't Back Down."
The Guardian and New York Times remembered author Carlos Ruiz Zafón.
SPIN recommended alternative and punk covers of Bob Dylan songs.
Parade recommended LGBT books.
Stream a new Thurston Moore song.
Black LGBTQ leaders recommended the best black queer books at NBC News.
Hamilton Leithauser played a Tiny Desk Concert.
Salon recommended graphic novels by Black authors.
Stream a new song by TV on the Radio's Tunde Adebimpe.
The Guardian profiled Colson Whitehead.
Whitehead has just finished a new book, which he describes as a crime novel set in Harlem. That’s all he will say about it. He does tell me that, if he writes “eight good pages over five days, that’s plenty”. Has being in lockdown impinged on that routine or even afforded him more time to write? “Well, the first six weeks I was not doing any writing at all. It was all about making sure the kids were all right and everyone was in a good mental state. Then, I thought maybe I can work for an hour or two a day and it was really hard getting back in the groove. But, hey, the books aren’t going to write themselves. The way I think about it is, what if I got struck down by plague or lightning? I’d rather finish the book than not.”
Stream a track from a lost Thelonious Monk live recording soon to be released.
Sudan Archives played a Tiny Desk Concert.
Stereogum recommended June's best jazz releases.
Joni Mitchell remembered recording her album Blue at Far Out Magazine.
Cat Power and -M- covered Cassius's "Toop Toop."
Junkee listed the best metal albums of all time.
The New York Times recommended books to grasp how we got to this moment.
The Guardian interviewed author Reni Eddo-Lodge.
BrooklynVegan recommended today's best music livestreams.
Authors recommended quarantine reading at the Guardian.
The Guardian interviewed author Valeria Luiselli.
The Guardian recommended summer reading.
The Christian Science Monitor listed June's best books.
Book Riot recommended memoirs narrated by queer women.
Joe Meno recommended true stories about the journey for asylum at Electric Literature.
Book Riot recommended films about authors.
The Rumpus interviewed poet Marianne Chan.
Ilana Masad discussed her novel All My Mother’s Lovers with Electric Literature.
Electric Literature featured new fiction by Caitlin Campbell.
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
