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June 25, 2020
Shorties (Zaina Arafat on Her Debut Novel, Reconsidering Aimee Mann's Magnolia Soundtrack, and more)
Zaina Arafat discussed her debut novel You Exist Too Much with The Maris Review.
A big theme in the book is in-betweenness, and one of those in-between places exists culturally. I wanted to show as much of what in-betweenness means for a Palestinian in particular but really any hyphenated American.
The A.V. Club reconsidered Aimee Mann's Magnolia soundtrack.
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Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward
This Day by Wendell Berry
M. Ward played a Tiny Desk Concert.
Electric Literature recommended poetry collections on Blackness.
Don't microwave your library books before returning them.
Pitchfork shared an excerpt from Texas Is the Reason: The Mavericks of Lone Star Punk.
Yale Climate Connections recommended books for virtual summer travel.
Stream a new song by Khruangbin.
Electric Literature interviewed poet Vincent Toro.
The music is everything. Poetry is, at its core, music. Sound is what draws me into a poem. There is music in other writing, but poetry centers music in a way that other writing genres do not (except for maybe theater, which is fundamentally poetry spoken in many voices).
Tulsa Athletic, a soccer team, has announced it will replace the national anthem with "This Land Is Your Land" at its home games.
Noam Chomsky discussed the Trump presidency with Jacobin.
Bandcamp Daily recommended artists who are redefining Bulgarian music.
O: The Oprah Magazine shared a roundtable discussion with four LGBTQ+ authors (George M. Johnson, Darnell Moore, Sesali Bowen, and Michael Arceneaux) who are changing the way we view Black queer literature.
The Ringer ranked the top albums in Rick Rubin's universe.
Debutiful listed the best debut books of 2020 so far,
Stream a new Widowspeak song.
The Millions interviewed author Sam Lansky.
I don’t want to be prescriptive about what readers should take away from this book, but the story I most wanted to tell—and the one I tried to tell with Broken People—is about the stories we tell ourselves about who we are, and how sticky our seductive tendencies to self-narrativize can be.
Nadine Shah discussed her new album with American Songwriter.
Literary Hub profiled author Ottessa Moshfegh.
Stream a new song by Hoops.
Literary Hub shared an excerpt from Oksana Zabuzhko's story collection, Your Ad Could Go Here.
Authors recommended their favorite children's books at Literary Hub.
Michael Farris Smith discussed his bookshelves with the Southwest Review.
The New Yorker reconsidered Ralph Ellison's novel Juneteenth.
