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January 25, 2021
Shorties (An Interview with Joan Didion, Future Islands' Tiny Desk Concert, and more)
TIME interviewed Joan Didion.
Future Islands played a Tiny Desk Concert.
Tuesday's's update to the 2020 edition of Largehearted Boy's list of "best books of 2020" book lists added 146 new lists. 1,517 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.
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The Painted Bird by Jerzy Kosinski
BrooklynVegan previewed the week's best music livestreams.
Natalie Haynes discussed her new book A Thousand Ships with Weekend Edition.
When I had the idea for the book, I was walking home and I thought, you know, what would be really cool is to do the Trojan War from the perspectives of all the women in it, all the women whose lives are touched by it. So that would be the goddesses that cause it. That would be, you know, the Trojan women. That would be the Greek women. And then I thought, oh, no, wait, hang on — and then there's the Amazons who come to fight after the end of the action of the Iliad, the Amazons come to fight for Troy as well ... and then it just expanded and expanded — it was like, well wait, what about all the women in the Odyssey, oh, hang on. And then the list got bigger and bigger.
Wonderlust interviewed Blag Dahlia of the Dwarves.
The Guardian shared an excerpt from Nikesh Shukla's memoir Brown Baby.
Vogue interviewed Jane Birkin about her new album.
Wonderlust listed the best travel books of all time.
Matt Berninger visited World Cafe for an interview and virtual live session.
Bhanu Kapil has been awarded the TS Eliot prize for her poetry collection How to Wash a Heart.
King Krule covered John Lennon's "Imagine."
The Rumpus previewed the week's virtual literary events.
Stream a new song by Jonsi.
Olivia Sudjic examined how the internet is transforming the novel at the Guardian.
BOMB interviewed author Madeleine Watts.
Tim Kinsella discussed his bookshelf with the Chicago Review of Books.
Electric Literature shared a new essay by Amber Sparks.
Cicely Tyson discussed her memoir Just as I Am with Morning Edition.
Glide Magazine interviewed Richard Hell.
Electric Literature shared a story from Dorthe Nors' new collection Wild Swims.
Matthew Sweet discussed the 30th anniversary of his Girlfriend album with Forbes.
The Creative Independent interviewed author Matilda Bernstein Sycamore.
Aquarium Drunkard interviewed guitarist Gary Lucas.
Electric Literature interviewed author Aoko Matsuda.
A bookseller shared an interaction with Lou Reed at Book Riot.
Fully Booked interviewed author Matthew Salesses.
Jenny Offill talked books and reading with Book Marks.
Stream the BBC Radio adaptation of The Lord of the Rings trilogy.
Literary Hub shared a story from Mary Beth Hughes' short story collection, The Ocean House.
The East Bay Times listed the books in California's literary canon.
Lauren Groff talked to the New Yorker about her story in this week's issue.
Book Riot recommended true crime memoirs.
Slate interviewed author Torrey Peters.
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