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October 2, 2020
Shorties (An Interview nwith Kate Wyer, The 20th Anniversary of The Teaches of Peaches, and more)
3:AM interviewed author Kate Wyer.
This book is an homage to the deep history of human storytelling—to The Epic of Gilgamesh in particular. Outrageous things happen in the course of a day within that poem, and it’s just life. I felt so much electricity in that text—in the way the characters transform, act, move. All of it is fabulism, without the label.
NPR Music reconsidered Peaches' The Teaches of Peaches album on its 20th anniversary.
The Teaches of Peaches struck against that unsteady dilemma in which women and girls in the public gaze found themselves.
October's best eBook deals.
Today's best eBook deals.
eBooks on sale for $1.99 today:
The Era, 1947–1957 by Roger Kahn
In the Shadow of the Valley by Bobi Conn
October 1964 by David Halberstam
The Old Patagonian Express by Paul Theroux
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson
Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? by Jeanette Winterson
Working by Studs Terkel
eBook on sale for $2.00 today:
Silent Spring by Rachel Carson
eBook on sale for $3.99 today:
How to Cook Everything Vegetarian by Mark Bittman
Bustle, Town & Country, InsideHook, and Entertainment Weekly recommended October's best books.
Paste listed the best Liz Phair songs.
The American Literary Translators Association announced its 2020 National Translation Awards shortlists.
Cover Me shared five covers of Radiohead's "Everything in Its Right Place."
Barbara Kingsolver talked poetry with Bookworm.
Paste previewed October's best albums.
Cosmopolitan recommended fall's best books.
Pitchfork recommended albums you might have missed this summer.
The New York Times recommended the week's best new books.
Paste reconsidered the La's self-titled album 30 years after its release.
Electric Literature recommended books set in bars.
The Creative Independent interviewed musician León Larregui.
The Nation shared a new essay by Bernardine Evaristo.
"When we talk about novels written by white men, most of the time we are talking about novels about white protagonists, usually male. This is not to say that writers shouldn’t write from all kinds of perspectives and across all kinds of perceived differences such as race or gender, but how many novelists actually do this? I won’t go into all the complexities involved with this issue here, but if, for example, there needs to be more black and Asian women in British fiction, the people most likely to do this are ourselves."
All Songs Considered recommended the week's best new albums.
Electric Literature interviewed author Benjamin Nugent.
Book Riot recommended literary bisexual and lesbian novels.
Stream a new song by the Nels Cline Singers.
Petina Gappah talked books and reading with the Guardian.
Kristin Hersh discussed the new Throwing Muses album with the Providence Journal.
The Rumpus interviewed author Makenna Goodman.
Rolling Stone reconsidered Radiohead's Kid A on its 20th anniversary.
Debutiful interviewed author K-Ming Chang.
Literary Hub shared an excerpt from Ray Padgett's 33 1/3 book I’m Your Fan: The Songs of Leonard Cohen.
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