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October 1, 2020

Shorties (October Best Book Lists, The Legacy of The La's, and more)

Memorial by Bryan Washington

The Washington Post, TIME, Shondaland, and the New York Observer previewed October's best books.


CLASH looked back on the La's thirty years after the band's self-titled album was released.


October's best eBook deals.
Today's best eBook deals.

eBook on sale for $1.99 today:

The Hidden Wound by Wendell Berry
Through a Window by Jane Goodall

eBook on sale for $2.99 today:

This Fight Is Our Fight by Elizabeth Warren

eBook on sale for $3.99 today:

The Roger Angell Baseball Collection by Roger Angell


All Songs Considered recapped September's best albums and songs.

Paste listed September's best albums.

Gorilla Vs. Bear shared a playlist of September's best songs.


Karen Russell discussed her novella Sleep Donation with BuzzFeed.


Jason Isbell and Amanda Shires played a Tiny Desk Concert.


Cover Me listed September's best cover songs.


Nick Hornby talked to the Orange County Register about his new novel Just Like You.


SPIN listed the best albums of the Britpop era.


Marcelo Hernandez Castillo discussed his memoir Children of the Land with Electric Literature.

I wanted a book that showed the instability that movement creates across generations and the emotional toll that that takes and how you process everything else in your life to adjust to inconsistency, to impermanence, so that you never really feel like the home you’re living in is yours. You never feel like the body you’re in is yours. Everything is on its way to something else.


Pitchfork reconsidered Rilo Kiley's self-titled debut album.


Wired previewed fall's best books.


Spoon's Britt Daniel talked to Bandcamp Daily about his favorite albums available on the service.


The National Book Foundation released its 2020-2021 Literature for Justice selected reading list.


Stream a new Mountain Goats video.


Karla Cornejo Villavicencio discussed her book The Undocumented Americans with Shondaland.


The memoir, Crying in H Mart, by Japanese Breakfast's Michelle Zauner, will be published in April.


Ross Showalter shared an essay on writing speculative fiction and disability at Electric Literature.


Stream a new Lavender Diamond song.


The Philippines Tatler interviewed author Miguel Syjuco.


Bill Callahan and Will Oldham covered Yusuf/Cat Stevens' "Blackness of the Night."


The Believer interviewed author Amy Berkowitz.


Stream a new Sloan song.


Entropy interviewed poet Rachel Levitsky.


Laura Jane Grace discussed her surprise new album with Rolling Stone.


The Believer interviewed poets Nikky Finney and Jericho Brown.


Alex Izenberg shared two cover songs at Aquarium Drunkard.


The OTHERPPL podcast interviewed author Steven Dunn.


The New Statesman interviewed poet Claudia Rankine.


The Granta podcast interviewed author Jenny Offill.


A new issue of Taco Bell Quarterly has been published.


Tobias Carroll wrote about political signs at the Cleveland Review of Books.


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