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December 17, 2020

Shorties (An Interview with Carmen Maria Machado, New Music from Guided By Voices, and more)

In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado

Mic interviewed author Carmen Maria Machado.


Stream a new Guided By Voices song.


Thursday's update to the 2020 edition of Largehearted Boy's list of "best books of 2020" book lists added 36 new lists. 880 year-end lists are now featured, with MANY more to come.

See also: Largehearted Boy's list of essential and interesting 2020 year-end music lists.


December's best eBook deals.

Today's best eBook deals.

eBooks on sale for $1.99:

The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
Moonwalking with Einstein by Joshua Foer

eBooks on sale for $2.99:

Animal Farm by George Orwell
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
Trust Exercise by Susan Choi

eBooks on sale for $4.99:

Animal Farm and 1984 by George Orwell
Long Walk to Freedom by Nelson Mandela
On Writing by Stephen King
The Pull of the Stars by Emma Donoghue


The Wall Street Journal interviewed Jeff Tweedy.


Granta shared the top fiction it published this year.


Meg Remy of U.S. Girls has announced her first book. Begin by Telling, will be published in 2021.


Matt Berninger visited The Current for an interview and live performance.


Literary Hub shared an excerpt from Michaelangelo Matos’s Can't Slow Down: How 1984 Became Pop's Blockbuster Year.


Vulture listed 2020's best quarantine music performances.


BuzzFeed recommended 2021 historical fiction.


The Creative Independent interviewed Carpark Records' Todd Hyman.


Electric Literature shared a new story by Alejandro Puyana.


Vulture examined Charlie Pride's legacy in country music.


Shondaland interviewed author Kelly Conaboy.


The Drive-By Truckers covered the Ramones' "he KKK Took My Baby Away."


Electric Literature recommended poetry collections by Latinx authors.


PopMatters recommended holiday albums you won't hear at the mall.


The New York Times shared a poem by Afaa Michael Weaver.


BBC News interviewed Phoebe Bridgers.


Granta interviewed poet Daisy Lafarge.


Mica Levi surprise-released a new solo album.


The New York Times profiled poet Nikki Giovanni.


Stream a new holiday song by PUP and Charly Bliss.


Literary Hub shared a poem from Jubi Arriola-Headley's collection original kink.


Stream a new song by the Chills.


OTHERPPL interviewed author Alex Branson.


Stream a new holiday song by Kevin Drew.


The Yale Review shared a conversation between Namwali Serpell and Maria Tumarkin.


The Transmissions podcast interviewed Chris Schlarb of Psychic Temple.



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