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October 19, 2020
Shorties (Art Spiegelman Profiled, A Prince Podcast, and more)
The Guardian profiled cartoonist Art Spiegelman.
Prince: The Story of Sign O' The Times is a podcast brought to you by The Current in collaboration with the Prince Estate.
October's best eBook deals.
Today's best eBook deals.
eBook on sale for $0.99 today:
Night Country by Loren Eiseley
eBooks on sale for $1.99 today:
The Ballad of the Sad Café by Carson McCullers
Deep South by Paul Theroux
The Gunners by Rebecca Kauffman
Hope in the Dark by Rebecca Solnit
Idaho by Emily Ruskovich
Second Nature by Michael Pollan
Celebrate the season with this playlist of 70 covers of Rockwell's "Somebody's Watching Me."
USA Today recommended the week's best new books.
The A.V. Club recommended the week's best new albums.
Rebecca Roanhorse discussed her new novel Black Sun with NPR Books.
The Irish Examiner profiled author Roxane Gay.
“I think men have to get their shit together and allow women to have access to the full range of emotions that they allow themselves access to,” she says. "[Women need] to be encouraged to recognise that their anger is not a liability, it is an asset. What will you allow that anger to push you toward?"
Cover Me shared covers of Simple Minds' "Don't You (Forget About Me)."
Comics Beat previewed fall's most anticipated graphic novels.
Rosie Carney covered Radiohead's "Bones."
BuzzFeed and The Rumpus previewed the week's best virtual literary events.
Stream a new Elvis Costello song.
The New York Times profiled author Bryan Washington.
Sarah Beth Tomberlin broke down her new EP track-by-track at Stereogum.
Tomberlin shared a playlist at Gorilla Vs. Bear.
The Guardian recommended books that define our age.
Bill Callahan and Bonnie 'Prince' Billy covered Dave Rich's "I've Made Up My Mind."
The Guardian profiled Don DeLillo.
"...and yes, he still works on a manual typewriter: 'I use an old secondhand Olympia, which I bought in 1975. What I enjoy about it is that it has large type, and this allows me to look clearly at the words on the page, and so to find a visual connection between letters in the word, and words in the sentence – something that has always been important to me, and which became more important when I was working on The Names [a novel from 1982, set in Greece and the Middle East, that is ostensibly about flashy business types in perpetual motion, but is really concerned with both the vagueness and specificity of language]. I decided then: just one paragraph on a page so that the eyes can fully engage'"
Stream a Nick Cave song.
Bitch Media recommended books feminists should read in October.
Stream a new King Princess songs.
The Los Angeles Review of Books remembered author and critic Stanley Crouch.
Aquarium Drunkard interviewed musician Kevin Morby.
InsideHook profiled author and book designer Peter Mendelsund.
Tennis covered Karen Carpenter's "Superstar."
Michiko Kakutani discussed her new essay collection Ex Libris with the Guardian.
Paste profiled singer-songwriter beabadoobee.
The Guardian shared a new essay by Maggie O'Farrell on writing her debut novel.
Lincoln Michel and Nadxieli Nieto recommended spooky Halloween reads from around the world.
The Chicago Review of Books interviewed poet Joy Harjo.
Voting is now open for the Not the Booker prize.
Stephen Curry discussed his new book club with the Washington Post.
Electric Literature interviewed poet Destiny O. Birdsong.
The Creative Independent interviewed author Ashleigh Bryant Phillips.
Aesthetics for Birds interviewed author and critic James Wood.
Salon talked politics with Noam Chomsky.
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