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November 7, 2022
Shorties (Franny Choi Interviewed, The Meet Me in the Bathroom Documentary, and more)
Shondaland interviewed poet Franny Choi.
I’m a poet, so I love digging underneath that surface. For example, the term catastrophe originally just meant a plot twist. Even the word apocalypse comes from the Greek word apokálypsis, which just means a text that takes a long view of history in order to make some sort of commentary on the present moment. We’ve associated that these are cataclysmic, everything-is-over terms when actually each of them hides other possibilities that are baked into the words themselves. So as a poet, I just find that to be really generative and fascinating.
The documentary Meet Me in the Bathroom, which explores New York City's burgeoning indie music scene of the late 1990s and early 2000s, opens tonight.
Read Lizzy Goodman's annotated playlist for her book that inspired the film.
Goodman listed iconic NYC music venues vital to the documentary's music scene at Thrillist.
19 year-end lists were added to the Largehearted Boy list of "best books of 2022" lists Saturday (bringing the total to 148), including Powell's best kids' and young adult books, several Waterstones' lists, and more.
eBook on sale for $1.99 today:
Everybody's Son by Thrity Umrigar
Cover Me shared covers of Dolly Parton songs.
CBR wrapped up its list of the best comic book writers.
John Darnielle discussed the Mountain Goats album Tallahassee with Stereogum on its 20th anniversary.
Chloe Cooper Jones talked to Electric Literature about her memoir.
Stream a new Animal Collective song.
All Songs Considered, Bandcamp Daily, Pitchfork, and Paste recommended the week's best new albums.
Sarah Fawn Montgomery recommended memoirs about leaving home at Electric Literature.
Stream a new song by Gladie.
Tor.com recommended the best speculative fiction coming from indie presses in November and December.
Rolling Stone remembered Low’s Mimi Parker.
The Sunday Times interviewed Haruki Murakami.
The Guardian shared an excerpt from Murakami's new book, Novelist as a Vocation.
Stream a new song by Temps.
Dani Shapiro discussed her debut novel Signal Fires with The Literary Life.
Alexis Charpentier discussed the hidden powers of record collecting at the TED Radio Hour.
Granta shared a conversation between authors Amina Cain & Patrick Cottrell.
Stars shared a new holiday song.
Literary Hub shared an excerpt from Kate Manning's new novel Gilded Mountain.
Bandcamp Daily recommended Brainiac albums.
Rain Taxi interviewed author Kathleen Rooney.
Stream a new Nicole Dollanganger song.
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