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February 3, 2023
Shorties (Martin Riker Interviewed, Jason Diamond on Jazz Books, and more)
Martin Riker talked to Electric Literature about his debut novel, The Guest Lecture.
When you find a writer who you sort of who means something to you, that’s a very special thing. But I think a really, really good publisher is more important. Because a publishing house creates a space in the culture, which seems to me a more crucial and larger gesture than a single writer’s voice.
Jason Diamond explored the world of jazz books.
eBooks on sale for $1.99 today:
The Gunners by Rebecca Kauffman
The Prophet: The Life of Leon Trotsky by Isaac Deutscher
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Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie
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The Stories of Ray Bradbury by Ray Bradbury
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.
The New York Times recommended the week's best books.
Stream a new song by Black Belt Eagle Scout.
Town & Country, Shondaland, and InsideHook recommended February's most anticipated books.
Pitchfork profiled the band caroline.
Llewllyn, to his bandmates’ regret, once gave an interviewer a perfect tagline for caroline’s tender, declamatory style: “sadboy triumphalism.” Their earthy emo/post-rock hybrid is a scrappy meld of Low and the Dirty Three, pairing self-aware melancholy with the camaraderie of campfire song.
Alex Prud’homme talked books and reading with the New York Times.
The last book I read straight through — one way to define a “great book” — was Susan Orlean’s “The Library Book,” a deceptively simple tale of the Los Angeles Central Library, the people in its orbit, books, family and arson.
Stream three new songs by Dick Stusso.
Batja Mesquita discussed her book Between Us: How Cultures Create Emotions with Public Books.
...culture is not an independent variable that somehow predicts or causes emotions. One way to understand culture is as patterns of emotions and emotional practices. There are emotion cultures that actually come very close to each other too, which is probably the case for different families in the same area or in the same neighborhood. But even then, they are not quite the same. The reason I am interested in comparing cultures that are further apart is that it allows me to observe how different the psychological processes can actually be
Stream a new song by Jonnine.
Literary Hub shared Tiphanie Yanique's essay from the anthology So We Can Know: Writers of Color on Pregnancy, Loss, Abortion, and Birth.
Stream a new song by Fatima Al Qadiri.
J.J. Anselmi talked about writing oral history at The Millions.
Stream a new song by @.
Literary Hub shared an interview with Toni Morrison from Sarah Ladipo Manyika's book Between Starshine and Clay: Conversations from the African Diaspora.
Bandcamp Daily examined Bristol's quiet psych scene.
Nyani Nkrumah recommended novels about women fighting against racism and classism at Electric Literature.
Tropical Fuck Storm covered Jimi Hendrix's "1983 (A Merman I Should Turn To Be)."
Ben Okri shared how he wrote his novel The Famished Road with The Booker Prize.
Stream a new song by New German Cinema.
Stereogum reconsidered My Bloody Valentine's m b v album on its 10th anniversary.
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