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December 6, 2022
Shorties (A New Margo Jefferson Essay, Best Albums of 2022 Lists, and more)
The Yale Review features new writing by Margo Jefferson.
Pitchfork, Ann Powers, NPR Music, Stereogum, and PopMatters listed the best albums of 2022.
78 year-end lists were added to the Largehearted Boy list of "best books of 2022" lists Monday (bringing the total to 674).
eBooks on sale for $2.99 today:
Hot, Cold, Heavy, Light, 100 Art Writings 1988–2018 by Peter Schjeldahl
Twenty-One Stories by Graham Greene
eBooks on sale for $3.99 today:
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
eBook on sale for $4.99 today:
Grit by Winterson
Stream a new song by Civic.
BuzzFeed and Literary Hub recommended December's best books.
Sunset Rubdown is reuniting.
Public Books scrutinized the new graphic novels published by the Department of Homeland Security.
...the graphic novels discussed here seek to transmit “good” information so as to counteract the “bad” information their readership might encounter elsewhere. But the effort to combat propaganda with propaganda is beset by contradiction and irony—just the sort of ambiguity that reading purely (and narrowly) for information cannot adequately address.
Stream a previously unreleased Sparklehorse song.
The Creative Independent interviewed writer and photographer Tall Milk.
The Guardian examined the continuing influence of the band Bloc Party.
Tor.com interviewed author Stephen Graham Jones.
...people who are against giving horror to kids probably use all of us who encountered The Exorcist or Chainsaw Massacre or “The Veldt”, or whatever, too young—they’re like “See? It messed you up. Now, you’re messed up for the rest of your life” you know?
The San Francisco Examiner profiled the band Wild Pink.
Elyse Friedman recommended books that feature schemers and opportunists at Electric Literature.
Stream a new song by Amber Arcades.
n+1 shared a report from the Harper Collins picket line.
Stream two new Samia songs.
The London Review of Books remembered poet Bernadette Mayer.
Stream a new song by C.I.A.
Write-Minded interviewed author Sarah Manguso.
Full Stop interviewed author Harald Voetmann.
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