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February 1, 2023
Shorties (Jessica George Interviewed, New Music from Frankie Rose, and more)
Jessica George discussed her debut novel Maame with Kirkus.
A friend of mine read Maame recently and told me, ‘You just reminded me how painful it was to lose my virginity!’ This is the thing about books: You have to believe in your audience. Maybe with a rom-com, readers don’t want to hear about painful times. They just want perfectly orchestrated moments. And that’s fine. That’s what you should get when you pick up that sort of book. However, as I was writing this, I just knew that wasn’t going to be the case.
Stream a new song by Frankie Rose.
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Black Buck by Mateo Askaripour
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To celebrate Largehearted Boy's 21st birthday this week, I shared a 21-song playlist of songs featured on the site, a song from every year.
Jesmyn Ward's new novel Let Us Descend will be published on October 3rd.
Dave Gahan covered the Raveonettes' "Chains."
Book Riot, The Millions, and Literary Hub recommended the week's best new books.
Stream a new song by Caroline Polachek.
Locus Magazine interviewed author and editor adrienne maree brown.
Tell us about your new collection Fables and Spells. Does the book have a specific theme or focus? Are there any new pieces included?
All of these stories and spells are in some way related to the work of witching, magic, conjuring, spell casting. What are the ways we become ourselves when the instruction manuals have been burned, outlawed, erased, and shamed? How do we reclaim that organic relationship to the wisdom of the world around us? Almost all of the short stories are new content, and many of the spells have been posted in different places but never pulled together in this juxtaposition.
The Creative Independent interviewed musician and activist Madame Ghandi.
I turn my ideas that have the heaviest emotion into songs, because music and songwriting is a timestamp of emotion. There was this really powerful emotion and, boom, I’ve put it into something tangible that other people can experience.
Samantha Cole discussed her book How Sex Changed the Internet and the Internet Changed Sex: An Unexpected History with Electric Literature.
Jeff Tweedy covered Woody Guthrie's "Union Maid."
BBC Culture reconsidered the writings of Colette.
Stream a new song by Rose City Band.
Carmen Maria Machado profiled Ada Limón at ELLE.
Poetry, Limón tells me, is a place for wonder. For mystery. “It’s a place where we can go and find the strength to process a lot of this momentous chaos that we’re experiencing, both as human beings and as human animals on a planet in crisis.”
Stream a new Y La Bamba song.
Author Chelsea Hodson has launched a new press, Rose Books.
Stream a new song by cheekface.
Post45 shared two previously unpublished poems by David Berman.
Stream a new song by Geese.
Dawn Raffel discussed her new book with Literary Hub.
Aquarium Drunkard interviewed Robert Forster of the Go-Betweens.
Full Stop interviewed author Grant Maierhofer.
I think I sort of arrived at the forms my books have taken on a case-by-case basis, and they started off a bit more conventionally and the work itself was really uninteresting to me those first few years. I wrote a lot of autobiographical stuff and it was pretty simple, but the feeling of writing it was still a bit exhilarating. I think that feeling is what has led me to where my work is now. Writing for me was a very energized process, and I was seeking aspects of writing that felt exciting, and weird, and like maybe I was exploring new ground, if only on a very individual level.
Stream a new song by sadie.
Kelly Link wrote about Ursula K. Le Guin at Literary Hub.
...Le Guin had such a long, remarkable, and prolific career that it’s possible to see, quite plainly, how she also was in conversation with herself over the course of her career. Over time, as she wrote, she went back to revisit the characters and settings and events of earlier novels and ideas. Most notably, she returned to Earthsea, to consider why her school for wizards had only admitted men: Tehanu and the further Earthsea books are gorgeous, thoughtful complications and enlargements of her original trilogy.
Death Cab for Cutie covered Low's "The Plan."
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