August 25, 2017
Shorties (Fall's Most Anticipated Nonfiction, The Village Voice's Musical Legacy, and more)
BookPage listed fall's most anticipated nonfiction books.
Former Village Voice editors and writers examined the paper's musical legacy at The Record.
The Guardian Books podcast interviewed author Jenny Zhang.
Stereogum reconsidered Dennis Wilson's Pacific Ocean Blue album on its 40th anniversary.
CLASH interviewed author Nick Mamatas.
Stream a new Beck song.
Bookworm interviewed author Danzy Senna.
Acoustic Guitar interviewed John Darnielle of the Mountain Goats.
Signature recommended books about the transgender experience.
Stream a new S. Carey song.
Literary Hub recommended September's best crime fiction.
Stream a new Stars song.
The Guardian profiled author Aravind Adiga.
Morning Edition profiled the band the War on Drugs.
Vulture profiled author Jesmyn Ward.
Stereogum shared covers of Glen Campbell's "Wichita Lineman."
The Millions shared a conversation between Chris Kraus and Jarret Kobek.
Stereogum listed essential Paisley Underground songs.
BookPage recommended fall's best debut novels.
EMA's Erika M. Anderson shared a track-by-track breakdown of her new album Exile In The Outer Ring at Drowned in Sound.
Publishers Weekly interviewed author Suzy Hansen.
The Rumpus interviewed musician Mick Harvey.
eBooks on sale for $0.99 today:
Benazir Bhutto: Favored Daughter by Brooke Allen
J.D. Salinger: The Escape Artist by Thomas Beller
The Lost Tribe of Coney Island by Claire Prentice
Lucian Freud: Eyes Wide Open by Phoebe Hoban
Men, Women & Children by Chad Kultgen
eBooks on sale for $1.99 today:
The Blazing World by Siri Hustvedt
The Family Fang by Kevin Wilson
Girl Through Glass by Sari Wilson
The Impossible Lives of Greta Wells by Andrew Sean Greer
Island Beneath the Sea by Isabel Allende
Jailbird by Kurt Vonnegut
A Land More Kind Than Home by Wiley Cash
Life Among Giants by Bill Roorbach
Red Moon by Benjamin Percy
The Small Backs of Children by Lidia Yuknavitch
A Small Revolution by Jimin Han
This Is Your Life, Harriet Chance! by Jonathan Evison
You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine by Alexandra Kleeman
eBooks on sale for $2.99 today:
Broken Verses by Kamila Shamsie
The Child in Time by Ian McEwan
The Comfort of Strangers by Ian McEwan
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
Inferno by Eileen Myles
The Sunlit Room by Rebecca Dinerstein
Visible City by Tova Mirvis
eBooks on sale for $3.99 today:
The Beautiful Bureaucrat by Helen Phillips
Broken Glass by Alain Mabanckou
A Complicated Kindness by Miriam Toews
Lightning People by Christopher Bollen
The River Why by David James Duncan
The Theoretical Foot by M. F. K. Fisher
also at Largehearted Boy:
previous Shorties posts (daily news and links from the worlds of music, books, and pop culture)
Atomic Books Comics Preview (the week's best new comics and graphic novels)
Book Notes (authors create playlists for their book)
Librairie Drawn & Quarterly Books of the Week (recommended new books, magazines, and comics)
musician/author interviews
Note Books (musicians discuss literature)
Short Cuts (writers pair a song with their short story or essay)
weekly music release lists
WORD Bookstores Books of the Week (recommended new books)
weekly music release lists
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