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December 5, 2022

Shorties (An Interview with Shehan Karunatilaka, The Pavement Musical Reviewed, and more)

The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida by Shehan Karunatilaka

The Deccan Herald interviewed author Shehan Karunatilaka.

The idea of fiction is to inhabit the minds of other beings, for both the reader and the writer. But if you do it lazily or offensively, you should be ready for the flak. That said, I see no value in placing visa requirements on a writer’s imagination.


Stereogum and Rolling Stone had differing reviews of the new Pavement musical Slanted! Enchanted!.


50 year-end lists were added to the Largehearted Boy list of "best books of 2022" lists Friday (bringing the total to 596).


eBook on sale for $2.99 today:

Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? by
Jeanette Winterson

December's best eBook deals.


The Goudies covered the Fresh Prince theme song.


Shondaland previewed December's best books.


The Creative Independent interviewed poet and musician Alabaster dePlume.


Bushra Rehman recommended books about life in Queens by writers of color at Electric Literature.


Jeff Tweedy covered Fleetwood Mac's "Little Lies."


Paulina Porizkova discussed her new memoir with Salon.


Danielson & Sufjan Stevens covered Daniel Johnson's "Worried Shoes."


The New York Times remembered poet Bernadette Mayer.


PopMatters recommended 2022's best indie rock albums.


The Paris Review interviewed author Elif Batuman.


The Los Angeles Times listed 2022's best albums.


The Chicago Review of Books interviewed poet Dipika Mukherjee.


Boris released a surprise album Friday.


Catapult interviewed poet Ruben Quesada.


Stream a new holiday song from the So So Glos.


The New York Times examined the two issue history of Astra Magazine.



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