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August 24, 2020
Shorties (100 Black Fiction Writers You Should Read, Remembering Justin Townes Earle, and more)
USA Today recommended 100 Black novelists and fiction writers you should read.
Singer-songwriter Justin Townes Earle has passed away.
BrooklynVegan gathered musicians' remembrances of Earle.
eBook on sale for $1.99 today:
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
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The Hotel New Hampshire by John Irving
A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again by David Foster Wallace
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Bright Eyes visited World Cafe for an interview,
Nnedi Okorafor discussed her new novel Ikenga with Weekend Edition.
Paste recommended the week's best new albums.
Men's Health listed the best books of the year so far.
David Abe discussed the history of Seattle hip-hop with the University of Washington Magazine.
Publishers Weekly profiled author Martin Amis.
Cover Me shared a collection of Joe Strummer cover songs.
Vol. 1 Brooklyn shared new short fiction by Lucy Britsch.
Conor Oberst shared the music that has soundtracked his life at Pitchfork.
The Guardian interviewed author Hari Kunzru.
Luna covered Television's "Marquee Moon."
The OTHERPPL podcast interviewed author Nick Flynn.
Stream Dolly Parton's new Christmas song.
Full Stop interviewed author Adam Wilson.
Mark Lanegan and Earth’s Dylan Carlson covered Galaxie 500's "Summertime."
Guernica features new short fiction by Sarah Gerard.
The Los Angeles Review of Books kicked off its "Writing Sex" series with videos from Garth Greenwell, Myriam Gurba, Andrea Lawlor, Andre Aciman, Saeed Jones, and Dennis Cooper.
Boris’ Atsuo and Takeshi shared their favorite Bandcamp releases.
Erin Morgenstern recommended her favorite books at The Week.
Stream a new song by Cots.
Shruti Swamy talked to Electric Literature about her story collection A House Is a Body.
I can say that as a reader, I have always been hungry for stories about motherhood. It does seem like there were a great many books that were published all at once right around the time, coincidentally, I was pregnant with my daughter, and which were overwhelmingly written by white writers. There is room for many, many more stories still.
GQ profiled author Ibram X. Kendi.
One problem is that most white people think of racism as a moral failing wrapped in an identity. They want to say “I am not a racist” the way Richard Nixon insisted “I am not a crook.” But in How to Be an Antiracist, Kendi argues that policies and actions are racist, not people. You can express a racist notion in one part of a sentence, he says, and an antiracist notion in another.
Electric Literature shared a new short story by Debbie Vance.
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