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August 18, 2020
Shorties (An Excerpt from Yaa Gyasi's New Novel, Barack Obama's Summer Playlist, and more)
Vanity Fair shared an excerpt from Yaa Gyasi's new novel Transcendent Kingdom, and also interviewed the author.
Barack Obama shared his summer playlist.
eBooks on sale for $1.99 today:
Optimism over Despair by Noam Chomsky
Sex and Rage by Eve Babitz
eBooks on sale for $2.99 today:
Mumbo Jumbo by Ishmael Reed
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love by Raymond Carver
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Cover Me shared five covers of Prince's "When Doves Cry."
The Oxford American features a new essay by Bryan Washington.
NPR Music remembered classical guitarist Julian Bream.
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution recommended fall's best southern books.
Paste recommended the week's best music livestreams.
The Guardian profiled author Mieko Kawakami.
Kawakami has made her name articulating womanhood in Japan better than any living author. Breasts and Eggs, originally written as a blog in the punchy dialect of her native Osaka, yanked working-class women off the literary sidelines, published in 2008. At its centre is Makiko, an ageing bar hostess and single mother to Midoriko, her reproachful adolescent daughter, who will only communicate with her in writing. As younger women begin displacing Makiko in a workplace hierarchy determined by male desire, she begins to obsess over her nipples and sagging boobs. Maybe breast implants would give her the “kind of body that you see in girly magazines”.
NPR Music considered the future of live music.
Bustle recommended books like Lovecraft Country.
Electric Literature recommended classic Gothic novels from the 19th century.
Conor Oberst discussed the new Bright Eyes album with SPIN.
Melissa Faliveno discussed her book Tomboy with Electric Literature.
Tunde Adebimpe talked acting with HuffPost.
Esquire listed the best books of 2020 so far.
Stream a new song by Tomberlin.
The finalists for the 2020 John Dos Passos Prize have been announced.
Stream a new Bill Callahan song.
Chris L. Terry talked books and reading with Book Marks.
The New York Public Library shared several lists of essential books about feminism.
Stream new music by Moor Mother.
Literary Hub recommended the week's best new books.
Jim Ruland talked to AwkwardSD about his Bad Religion book.
Smithsonian Magazine examined how twelve female cookbook authors changed the way we eat.
Bookforum interviewed author Genevieve Hudson.
Vol. 1 Brooklyn interviewed author Sheree Renée Thomas.
Asymptote recommended notable books in translation out in August.
Harper's features a new essay by Naomi Jackson.
The Believer interviewed author Sarah Gerard.
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