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November 16, 2020
Shorties (Barack Obama on His New Memoir, Hanif Abdurraqib on Sade's Lovers Rock Album, and more)
Barack Obama discussed his new book A Promised Land on Morning Edition.
Hanif Abdurraqib reconsidered Sade's Lovers Rock album in its 20th anniversary at Stereogum.
Wednesday'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 Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
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Stay with Me by Ayobami Adebayo
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Soul Full of Coal Dust: A Fight for Breath and Justice in Appalachia by Chris Hamby
Rolling Stone shared a conversation between Brittney Howard and Margo Price.
Roxane Gay recommended post-election reading at Bookshop.
The A.V. Club listed the week's best new music releases.
Rachel Bloom discussed her memoir I Want to Be Where the Normal People Are with the New York Times.
Stream a new song by Valerie June.
USA Today recommended the week's best new books.
Paste interviewed Eels' Mark Oliver Everett.
The Guardian profiled Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.
SPIN interviewed musician Jason Lytle.
BU Today interviewed Sigrid Nunez.
Tower Records has returned as an online store.
Electric Literature shared a new comic by Clancy Tripp.
Rolling Stone listed great Iggy Pop collaborations.
Tor.com recommended November's best horror and genre-bending songs.
Stream two new songs by Jessica Lea Mayfield.
Jessica Gross discussed her novel Hysteria with Electric Literature.
Porridge Radio covered Leonard Cohen’s “Who By Fire.”
The Buffalo News profiled author Damon Young.
Stream a new Ed Ackerson tribute album.
Salman Rushdie talked to the New Yorker about his story in this week's issue.
Stream a new song by The Notwist.
Tin House interviewed Elissa Gabbert.
Stream a new Peter Bjorn And John song.
Guernica interviewed Hilton Als.
The members of Loma shared some of their artistic inspirations at Dusted.
Granta interviewed Lynne Tillman.
Mary Lattimore discussed her favorite albums at The Quietus.
The Guardian profiled author Otegha Uwagba and her book Whites: On Race and Other Falsehoods.
Behind Uwagba’s restrained prose you can sense an iceberg of rage and frustration. Her purpose is to sum up the mental tithes of co-existing with whiteness. “I just wanted to communicate the burden of whiteness, the mental and emotional trauma,” she says. This burden is placed on black people by “the progressive, liberal people that I interact with, on a daily basis work with,” people they “are friends with, perhaps have intimate relationships with”. The people who, despite their immaculate politics, present a barrier to racial equality because they do not understand that racial justice is “redistributive” – that they must give something up if black people are to thrive.
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