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January 16, 2023
Shorties (An Interview with Bret Easton Ellis, A Profile of Composer Kai Malone, and more)
Bret Easton Ellis discussed his new novel The Shards with the Guardian.
Are you less attracted to satire nowadays?
Less Than Zero [1985] had the kind of moralising that a sophisticated 19- or 20-year-old might inflict upon everyone with his self-regard; you grow out of that. I had no desire in this book to satirise Bret’s milieu. I just wanted to present it how I remembered it and how I felt it. Someone approaching it from a much younger point of view would maybe write a novel about Bret and his Nicaraguan maid and how he wants to help her. Maybe Picador would have published that book.
Bandcamp Daily profiled composer Kai Malone.
Much of Malone’s work employs rhythmic patterns like canons or tuning systems that guide the music in a certain direction. Within these confines, she finds space for creativity and change. “When you have a bunch of restrictions, you lose control because there’s some sort of agency that is given to the composition that you submit yourself to,” she says. “It’s a big puzzle. And then when it does fit together, the piece is so much more perplexing than I could have really imagined or linearly composed.”
95 year-end lists were added to the Largehearted Boy list of "best books of 2022" lists Monday (bringing the total to 1,528).
eBook on sale for $1.99 today:
Moonwalking with Einstein by Joshua Foer
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The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
NPR Music, BrooklynVegan, and Paste recommended the week's best new albums.
The Guardian profiled cartoonist Deena Mohamed.
Rodney Crowell shared songwriting stories at the Oxford American.
Literary Hub shared an excerpt from Laura Zigman's novel Small World.
The Current interviewed Ben Gibbard.
Bustle interviewed author Allegra Goodman.
PopMatters reconsidered Bob Dylan's covers album Good as I Been to You 30 years after its release.
The New Statesman previewed the best fiction and nonfiction of the year.
Osa Atoe, editor of the Shotgun Seamstress zine and anthology, recommended music at Bandcamp Daily.
PEN America interviewed author https://pen.org/the-pen-ten-an-interview-with-jamila-minnicks/.
Far Out examined the literary influences of the Fall's Mark E. Smith.
John Warner considered the flawed business models for current literary magazines at the Chicago Tribune.
The Guardian shared a new Rebecca Solnit essay ion climate change.
Stream Peel Dream Magazine's new EP.
Maggie O'Farrell discussed her novel The Marriage Portrait with Hot Press.
“I didn’t want to write the kind of novel where you need a degree in English literature to appreciate it. Of course, it’s an absolute gift of an opening. I thought, ‘Why not? Let’s go for it – full gothic Renaissance horror.’
The Masters Review interviewed author Jen Michalski.
The OTHERPPL podcast interviewed author Bruce Wagner.
The Rumpus interviewed poet Maggie Millner.
Jonathan Carroll talked to the Los Angeles Review of Books about his new novel, Mr. Breakfast.
Vol. 1 Brooklyn interviewed author Robert Freeman Wexler.
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