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August 21, 2020
Shorties (A Profile of Elena Ferrante's English Translator, The Dead Milkmen Covered Heaven 17, and more)
The New York Times profiled Elena Ferrante's English translator Ann Goldstein.
Goldstein has never met Ferrante and communicates with her through her publisher, but she has become one of the best known and most celebrated literary translators in the world as a result of her work on “My Brilliant Friend” and the rest of the author’s Neapolitan quartet
The Dead Milkmen covered Heaven 17’s "(We Don’t Need This) Fascist Groove Thang."
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Summer of '49 by David Halberstam
Paste listed the best songs by Bully.
AnOther interviewed author Brandon Taylor.
“When I say stuff like ‘I’m not writing for the white gaze,’ it’s not me trying to be provocative or messy, it’s what I really think and it comes from a really deep place. I’m just trying to be honest because if you’re not you’re just protecting whiteness,” says Taylor.
Angel Olsen and Hand Habits covered Tom Petty's "Walls."
Pitchfork interviewed Olsen.
Cosmopolitan recommended books to give your friends.
Nation of Language covered the Pixies' "Gouge Away."
Bookworm interviewed author Edmund White.
The Nervous Breakdown shared an excerpt from Miah Jeffra's essay collection The Fabulous Ekphrastic Fantastic!.
Stereogum recapped August's best jazz releases.
The New York Times recommended the week's best books.
The Dirty Projectors virtually visited The Current for an interview and live performance.
The Rumpus interviewed author Joshua Harmon.
TED speakers recommended books under 200 pages.
Christopher Linforth discussed his flash fiction collection Directory with Vol. 1 Brooklyn.
Musicians talked to the Guardian about the state of touring pre-pandemic.
Hazlitt interviewed author Rebecca Watson.
Words Without Borders recommended books by black women in translation.
The Guardian profiled author Helen Macdonald.
BOMB interviewed poet Sarah M. Sala.
Gail Tsukiyama discussed her novel The Color of Air with the Christian Science Monitor.
Maaza Mengiste talked books and reading with the Guardian.
Ama Ata Aidoo’s Our Sister Killjoy blew open my conceptions of what a book could do and what subjects it could address. I felt seen and acknowledged as an immigrant, an African, a young woman navigating white culture. It had a profound and lasting effect on me: I was not alone.
Literary Hub shared an excerpt from Heidi Pitlor's novel Impersonation.
The Rumpus interviewed author Kapka Kassabova.
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