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August 3, 2020
Shorties (Virginie Despentes on Books & Reading, New Laura Veirs Music, and more)
Virginie Despentes talked books and reading with the Guardian.
Charles Bukowski is my comfort read. He makes me feel good.
Stream a new song by Laura Veirs.
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Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
Plainsong by Kent Haruf
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NPR reviewed Showtime's Go-Go's documentary.
"In a medium so given to staged reenactments and place-holders (a concert poster in lieu of concert footage, say), the film's determination to show its work is striking."
Vulture and Salon also reviewed the film.
The Cut profiled author Sarah Schulman.
“A nonfiction book is the story of an idea,” Schulman told me — and the analysis found in Conflict Is Not Abuse, she writes, brings “fifty-seven years of living and thirty-five years of writing to a critical conclusion.” In this case, the idea’s story is perhaps also her own.
Kathleen Edwards virtually visited The Current for an interview and live performance.
Natasha Trethewey talked to Shondaland and Fresh Air about her memoir Memorial Drive.
NPR Music remembered Fleetwood Mac co-founder Peter Green.
Author Molly Wizenberg shared a food diary at Grub Street.
Maria Sherman discussed her book Larger Than Life: A History Of Boy Bands From NKOTB To BTS with Weekend Edition.
Bustle listed the best books of the year so far.
Vulture examined the "Jack Antonoff sound."
The 2020 Booker Prize longlist has been announced.
Cover Me shared a selection of cover songs performed by Mark Lanegan.
The Creative Independent interviewed author Blake Butler.
What makes a good sentence for you?
It would be one where there’s some purpose to it, but I don’t know why. I approach it from logic first. I write a sentence I don’t know what to do with and then I try to figure out what to do with it as I write the next one.
The Ringer and Paste reconsidered the Arcade Fire's album The Suburbs ten years after its release.
Viet Thanh Nguyen interviewed Phuc Tran at Electric Literature.
The Chicago Tribune looked back on 30 years of Lollapalooza.
The Creative Independent interviewed author Jenny Zhang.
Paste interviewed folk legend Shirley Collins.
British Vogue recommended books that will return you to nature.
Matt Berninger and Phoebe Bridgers talked songwriting with The Creative Independent.
The Independent recommended novels on the environment and the climate crisis.
Paste recommended the week's best new books.
TIME, The A.V. Club, Town & Country, and PopSugar recommended August's best books.
Strand of Oaks' Timothy Showaler discussed his favorite album (Joanna Newsom's Ys) at Under the Radar.
NPR Books recommended three of summer's best novels in translation.
Bandcamp Daily interviewed Protomartyr’s Joe Casey.
Electric Literature interviewed author David Adjmi.
Richard Butler talked to SPIN and All Things Considered about the Psychedelic Furs' first new album in 29 years.
Shondaland interviewed Lauren Beukes about her new novel Afterland.
The concept for the novel was a world without men — the pandemic was just a way of getting there. There's a long history of world-without-men novels, dating back to the 1800s, of various kinds of feminist or not-so-feminist utopias. I really wanted to lean in to this idea that a world of women, especially if it was emerging from our own world, would not naturally be better or kinder, and where everyone's growing communal gardens and making friendship bracelets. Matriarchy can be just as unforgiving, power hungry, greedy, and selfish as patriarchy. And women are just as capable of evil, violence, self-interest, and power plays as men. And sometimes [women] feel like they have more to prove.
Bandcamp Daily shared a brief guide to Animal Collective's discography.
Debutiful interviewed author Lucie Britsch.
Stream a new song by the Notwist.
Bookworm interviewed author Margot Livesey.
Aquarium Drunkard shared a collection of Steely Dan radio, sessions, and live sets.
Rolling Stone shared an excerpt from Diane Caldwell's memoir Rockaway: Surfing Headlong into a New Life.
Courtney Barnett and Phoebe Bridgers covered Gillian Welch’s "Everything Is Free."
The 2020 Hugo Award winners have been announced.
Gorilla Vs. Bear shared a playlist of July's best music.
Literary Hub shared an excerpt from Jayant Kaikini’s story collection No Presents Please.
Stream a new Neil Young song.
Emma Straub talked bookselling during the pandemic with Electric Literature.
Stream a new song by Peaches.
This Is Horror interviewed author Paul Tremblay.
Stream a new Go-Go's song.
Bookforum interviewed author Laura van den Berg.
Land of Talk's Elizabeth Powell discussed 10 songs that influenced the band's new album at BrooklynVegan.
BOMB interviewed author Kate Milliken.
The Quietus interviewed Jon Anderson of Yes.
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