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September 29, 2022
Shorties (An Interview with Namwali Serpell, New Music from Johanna Warren, and more)
Namwali Serpell discussed her new novel with Shondaland.
If you search the word “plot” on Wikipedia or Google, you’ll find all this advice for writers about conflict and resolution, about climax and denouement. It gives us an illusion that we tell stories from beginning to end. But almost always, even if events happen from beginning to end, the order of telling is not the same as the order of happening, and there’s a really good question as to why that is. Very few stories start from the beginning and move toward the end, and so that’s a wonderful tool for writers because it means that we can manipulate time.
Literary Hub shared an excerpt from the novel.
Stream a new song by Johanna Warren.
eBooks on sale for $1.99 today:
Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo
Why We Can't Sleep by Ada Calhoun
eBooks on sale for $2.99 today:
Adulthood Rites by Octavia E. Butler
The Great Glorious Goddamn of It All by Josh Ritter
Lucy Dacus shared two Carole King covers.
Author Hua Hsu shared his favorite things at The Strategist.
Pitchfork listed the best albums of the 1990s.
The Walrus remembered the writing of Mavis Gallant, who would have turned 100 this year.
Stream a new Paramore song.
BuzzFeed listed fall's most anticipated memoirs.
PopMatters reconsidered the B-52s eponymous debut album.
The Christian Science Monitor profiled poet Ada Limón.
Stream a new song by Let’s Eat Grandma.
Public Books interviewed author Charles Yu.
PopMatters shared an excerpt from Gavin Butt's book No Machos or Pop Stars: When the Leeds Art Experiment Went Punk.
Vulture profiled author Cathy Park Hong.
Stream a new song by Caitlin Rose.
Ainslie Hogarth recommended books about monstrous mothers at Electric Literature.
Mike Joyce discussed recording the Smiths' Strangeways Here We Come album with the BBC.
The Creative Independent interviewed author Gennarose Nethercott.
Stream a new song by Dead Cross.
Electric Literature shared new short fiction by Nick Otte.
NYCTaper shared a recording of a recent live performance by Joan Shelley.
Sarah Thomas recommended nature memoirs at the Guardian.
Honorée Fanonne Jeffers and Clint Smith have been awarded the Dayton Literary Peace Prize.
Stream a new Archers of Loaf song.
Book Riot recommended genre-blending literary fiction.
Stream a new song from Nation of Language.
The OTHERPPL podcast and Chicago Review of Books interviewed author Chelsea Martin.
Aquarium Drunkard interviewed musician and author Nabil Ayers.
Catapult features new fiction by Meredith Talusan
Stream a new song by Bonnie Light Horseman.
SSENSE shared a new essay by Sarah Thankam Mathews.
Richard Manning discussed his new book If It Sounds Good, It Is Good with Chapter 16.
I’m convinced music is a necessity. It’s not something that we have as a frill. It’s foundational to the human condition. What it does is give us access to parts of our brain and ways of thinking and understanding that are becoming lost in modern humans. I think its primary purpose is recovering our humanity.
The Rumpus interviewed author Sonya Huber.
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