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December 9, 2022

Shorties (Noor Naga Won the Center For Fiction First Novel Prize, 2022's Best Experimental Albums, and more)

If an Egyptian Cannot Speak English by Noor Naga

Noor Naga has been awarded The Center for Fiction 2022 First Novel Prize for her novel If an Egyptian Cannot Speak English.


Stereogum listed 2022's best experimental albums.


68 year-end lists were added to the Largehearted Boy list of "best books of 2022" lists Thursday (bringing the total to 742).


eBooks on sale for $4.99 today:

The Neapolitan Novels Boxed Set by Elena Ferrante

Parable of the Talents by Octavia E. Butler

December's best eBook deals.


NPR Music shared video of a live set by Hurray for the Riff Raff.


Electric Literature interviewed author Ryan Lee Wong.


Deceptive Cadence listed the year's best classical albums.


Jane Smiley discussed her new novel with Shondaland.

A lot of murder mysteries are short. It’s really hard to maintain the mystery for a long time.


Stream a new song by Paramore.


Erin E. Adams recommended novels that use mystery to examine race at Electric Literature.


The Chicago Reader shared an excerpt from Bruce Adams' book You're with Stupid: kranky, Chicago, and the Reinvention of Indie Music.


The Creative Independent interviewed writer and photographer Yang Shi.



The New York Times shared a new essay by Silvia Moreno-Garcia,


Rachel Kushner and Ottessa Moshfegh talked to the San Francisco Chronicle about adapting Kushner's novel The Mars Room for film.

“Working on ‘The Mars Room’ was like learning a new language,” Moshfegh said over Zoom from her home in Pasadena. “It’s such a rich book, and one thing that I think is so distinctive about Rachel — it just feels like a phenomenon to me — is how many stories she can tell at once, and how she weaves them all in.” 


The Quietus recommended 2022's best cassette tapes.


Poets shared thoughts on revision at the Iron Horse Review.


Whitney covered Beach House's "Other People."



Stream a new song by Foyer Red.










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