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November 12, 2020
Shorties (An Interview with Samanta Schweblin, Loma's Emily Cross Profiled, and more)
Electric Literature interviewed author Samanta Schweblin.
"I suppose that writers are also always looking and listening to everything hungrily for material. Although sometimes it can also work as a shield. In moments of pain, or fear, sometimes I find myself taking a distance and wondering, will this help any story? Perhaps what we call “our virtues” are nothing more than personal methods of evasion or defense."
Pitchfork profiled Loma's Emily Cross.
On Don’t Shy Away, elements of ambient, folk, free jazz, and pop dissolve into a singular sound that is deeply collaborative.
Yesterday's update to the 2020 edition of Largehearted Boy's list of "best books of 2020" book lists added 24 new lists. 242 year-end lists are now featured, with MANY more to come.
eBook on sale today for $1.99:
The Death of Truth by Michiko Kakutani
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Stream the new Mountain Goats song, "Four Seasons Total landscaping."
Rumaan Alam talked books and reading with ELLE.
Paste listed the best albums of 1990.
The Creative Independent interviewed poet Precious Okoyomon.
Circuit Des Yeux covered Nico’s “Janitor Of Lunacy."
The 2020 Dayton Literary Peace Prize has been awarded to Alice Hoffman for fiction and Chanel Miller for nonfiction.
Graham Coxon's forthcoming graphic novel Superstate will be accompanied by a soundtrack album.
Samantha Irby talked to Entertainment Weekly about her upcoming writing projects.
Lenny Kravitz talked books and reading with the New York Times.
Maaza Mengiste discussed the years of research behind her novel The Shadow King with the New York Times.
When historians or writers start to look at documents from history, we’re moving in contested territory. There are huge gaps, and we are in danger of falling into pits, if we don’t know where to look. We still have to decolonize the archives.
Bandcamp Daily examined the music of the "New Weird South."
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie reviewed Barack Obama's new book A Promised Land at the New York Times.
Barack Obama is as fine a writer as they come. It is not merely that this book avoids being ponderous, as might be expected, even forgiven, of a hefty memoir, but that it is nearly always pleasurable to read, sentence by sentence, the prose gorgeous in places, the detail granular and vivid.
PopMatters recommended shoegaze albums that aren't My Bloody Valentine's Loveless.
Book Riot recommended books about serial killers.
Stream a new Teenage Fanclub song.
The Los Angeles Review of Books interviewed Namwali Serpell.
Nels Cline talked to American Songwriter about the latest Nels Cline Singers album.
The Maris Review interviewed Diane Cook.
Aquarium Drunkard interviewed Lambchop's Kurt Wagner.
The Rumpus features new fiction by K-Ming Chang.
Rolling Stone listed the best albums of 1980.
Vol. 1 Brooklyn shared a new essay by Alex DiFrancesco.
Aquarium Drunkard interviewed musician, composer, and producer Josh Kaufman.
Laura Stevenson broke down every bonus track on her remastered and expanded Sit Resist album at American Songwriter.
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