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February 1, 2021
Shorties (The Best Debut Novelists of 2021, Remembering MF Doom, and more)
The Guardian listed the best debut novelists of 2021.
Vulture remembered MF Doom.
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.
February's best eBook deals.
eBooks on sale for $1.99 today:
Dear Life by Alice Munro
Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller
eBooks on sale for $2.99 today:
All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren
Chaos by James Gleick
Letter to My Daughter by Maya Angelou
All Songs Considered and Paste recommended the week's best new albums.
Alison Wisdom recommended books about the dark side of girlhood at Electric Literature.
Rivers Cuomo discussed the new Weezer album with All Things Considered.
Tor.com shared an excerpt from Edward Carey's novel The Swallowed Man.
Paste recapped January's best albums.
Ethan Hawke discussed his new novel with Weekend Edition.
Cover Me listed the best covers of Pixies songs.
Avni Doshi discussed her favorite books at Vulture
Ani DiFranco talked to Morning Edition about her new album.
Dantiel W. Moniz discussed her short story collection Milk Blood Heat with Shondaland.
The collection is talking about connection and nourishment, what consumes you, what you consume in the body. What I wanted from these stories most of all was for them to be felt in the body. If we think about our feelings, our emotions, sometimes people tend to think, "Oh, that's only in the brain, or that's a projection." But you can physically feel your emotions.
Bandcamp Daily delved into the music of Cabaret Voltaire.
Electric Literature interviewed Aimee Bender.
Stream a new song by the Hold Steady.
Vulture. interviewed author Brontez Purnell.
Gorilla Vs. Bear shared a mix of January's best songs.
Bookworm interviewed author Rebecca Sacks.
Anxious covered Elliott Smith's "Bled White."
Bernardine Evaristo discussed the forgotten books by Black authors she is reviving at the Guardian.
The Guardian interviewed Madlib.
George Saunders talked books and reading at the Guardian.
Cover Me recapped January's best new cover songs.
BOMB interviewed R.O. Kwon and Garth Greenwell about their new anthology Kink.
Attitude recommended LGBTQ music artists to watch this year.
Soft Punk Mag interviewed author Lauren Oyler.
Femi and Made Kuti discussed their forthcoming albums with American Songwriter.
Entertainment Weekly, Refinery29, Smithsonian Magazine, and PopSugar recommended February's best books.
Trombone Shorty talked to Vanity Fair about his new album and the future of New Orleans.
The Spectator recommended history books.
Bill Callahan & Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy covered Leonard Cohen's "The Night of Santiago" with David Grubbs.
Paul Vidich recommended spy novels with women protagonists at Electric Literature.
Emily Nemens talked books and reading with Book Marks.
The Creative Independent interviewed playwright Tarell Alvin McCraney .
Literary Hub shared an excerpt from Chang-Rae Lee's new novel My Year Abroad.
Kirkus recommended new books to read during Black History Month.
Book Riot recommended 2021's best debut novels.
The Believer interviewed author Yan Lianke.
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