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items: Emily Hilliard's Playlist for Her Book "Making Our Future"
items: Shorties (Mai Nardone Interviewed, New Music by Bully, and more)
items: Jesica Fields' Playlist for Her Poetry Collection "When a Grasshopper Whispers"
items: Shorties (An Excerpt from Sonora Jha's New Novel, New Music from PONY, and more)
items: Anne K. Yoder's Playlist for Her Novel "The Enhancers"
items: Shorties (A Previously Unpublished Interview with Clarice Lispector, Ruhail Qaisar on His Debut Album, and more)
items: Curtis White's Playlist for His Book "Transcendent"
items: Shorties (Charmaine Craig on Her New Novel, Caroline Polachek Profiled, and more)
items: Miriam Darlington's Playlist for Her Book "The Wise Hours"
items: Shorties (Rebecca Makkai's Rules of Literary Etiquette, Quasi Profiled, and more)
items: Geoffrey D. Morrison's Playlist for His Novel "Falling Hour"
items: Shorties (An Excerpt from Gunnhild Øyehaug's New Collection, An Interview with Black Belt Eagle Scout, and more)
items: Stephen Graham Jones's Playlist for His Novel "Don't Fear the Reaper"
items: Shorties (A Profile of Mieko Kawakami, A Profile of Screaming Females, and more)
items: Shorties (Jennifer Maritza McCauley's Recommended Afro-Latina Writers, An Interview with John Cale, and more)

Emily Hilliard's Playlist for Her Book "Making Our Future"
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description: In the Book Notes series, authors create and discuss a music playlist that relates in some way to their recently published book. Previous contributors include Jesmyn Ward, Lauren Groff, Bret Easton Ellis, Celeste Ng, T.C. Boyle, Dana Spiotta, Amy Bloom, Aimee Bender, Roxane Gay, and many others. Emily Hilliard's Making Our Future: Visionary Folklore and Everyday Culture in Appalachia is a fascinating exploration of folklife in West Virginia as well as the role folklore plays in culture. The Southern Review of Books wrote of the book: "A fascinating example of folklore fieldwork in West Virginia. People from the state . . . will find places and concepts they recognize thoughtfully and respectfully represented, and outsiders will gain an understanding of the deeply complex and communal past and present of the Mountain State." In her own words, here is Emily Hilliard's Book Notes music playlist for her book Making Our Future: Visionary Folklore and Everyday Culture in Appalachia: Though in Making Our Future: Visionary Folklore and Everyday Culture in Appalachia there is only one chapter expressly devoted to music, music runs throughout the book, much as it does through all of the West Virginia folkways practices the book traces—from the gospel group Flying Colors of the multiracial, multiethnic coal camp community Scotts Run, to the Tom Petty, Rihanna, and Twisted Sister songs that West Virginia educators sang during the 2018-2019 Teachers’ Strike, to the square dance held under an effigy of Old Man Winter during the Swiss town of Helvetia’s annual pre-Lenten festival. And at the culmination of nearly every event or celebration, there’s “Country Roads”— In West Virginia there is always “Country Roads.” Though many of the songs on this playlist link directly to chapters in the book, others have a more abstract connection—providing an ideal sonic atmosphere for the book to be read. Most are by West Virginians. “They’ll Never Keep Us Down” - Hazel Dickens Themes of labor …
subject: Book Notes (2022 - )
creator: david
date: 2023-02-16T08:23:50-05:00

Shorties (Mai Nardone Interviewed, New Music by Bully, and more)
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description: Mai Nardone discussed his new story collection Welcome Me to the Kingdom with Electric Literature. What I liked about the title is that it can sound like a plea and it can also sound like a demand, a kind of insistence. The title story is about two women who are trying to find their place in the world geographically and also socially. One is older and one is much younger; it’s the younger one who is reeling from dislocation. In that particular story “the kingdom” is the men’s world of gambling. The title is the older woman joking about entering that kingdom. Stream a new song by Bully. eBooks on sale for $1.99 today: Ariel by Sylvia Plath Pie School by Kate Lebo eBook on sale for $3.99 today: Taft by Ann Patchett Today's eBook deals February's best eBook deals. Pitchfork profiled Jamal Alnasr, owner of NYC's Village Revival Records. Alnasr’s lack of filter and stubborn sensibility give Village Revival a gritty, old-school New York charm. Carmen Maria Machado recommended the best scene she has ever read at Vulture. Stream three new songs by Bill Orcutt. Literary Hub shared Domenica Ruta's contribution to the anthology Wanting: Women Writing about Desire. Stream a new song by Mega Bog. Sarah Watling recommended neglected books about the Spanish Civil War at the Guardian. Stream a new Natalie Merchant song. Camonghne Felix talked to Shondaland about her memoir Dyscalculia. In poetry, cliché is assumed. If you study poetry, you know that cliché is actually not a bad thing. Cliché is about familiarity. One of the things you want most in a poem is some familiarity, some sense of it. Ultimately with this book, I realized that because I was not specifically writing poems and I was writing in prose, I could take advantage of the cliché in a more unique way, and to speak in physiological terms, I took the cliché and spread it out and spread it as thin as possible. Stream a new John Vanderslice song. Debutiful interviewed author Daisy Alpert Florin. UPROXX interviewed singer-s…
subject: Shorties
creator: david
date: 2023-02-16T07:21:53-05:00

Jesica Fields' Playlist for Her Poetry Collection "When a Grasshopper Whispers"
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description: In the Book Notes series, authors create and discuss a music playlist that relates in some way to their recently published book. Previous contributors include Jesmyn Ward, Lauren Groff, Bret Easton Ellis, Celeste Ng, T.C. Boyle, Dana Spiotta, Amy Bloom, Aimee Bender, Roxane Gay, and many others. Jesica Fields' collection When a Grasshopper Whispers is filled with poems of trauma and survival. In her own words, here is Jesica Fields' Book Notes music playlist for her poetry collection When a Grasshopper Whispers: Kelly Clarkson | Because of You The collection begins with poems about childhood. The limiting beliefs that are set upon us from a very young age and how we learned to cope with them. Sometimes our coping skills create patterns of negative behaviors. Waking Up describes this feeling of realization that our toxic environments can be literal hell on Earth. Kelly Clarkson’s song "Because of You" touches on childhood emotional neglect and the traumas attached to self-love, security, and trust. Billy Gilman | One Voice The overall theme of When a Grasshopper Whispers is to allow the reader to see even the smallest voices can make a big impact. I am very soft-spoken, but through writing, I have this powerful tool that allows me to connect with others and make a change in the world. "One Voice" has been a favorite song of mine since childhood. I’ve always felt like I was on this hero’s journey to find my own voice and make an impact in the world. Zoe Weiss | Control Throughout the book, I address several mental health issues like anxiety and depression. The reader goes on a rollercoaster of mixed emotions as I face an internal battle with mental health. "Neurotypical Nightmares" is one of my favorite poems in the collection. It really embodies this song because I describe how if left untreated depression can take over and we lose control of our lives. Jimmy Eats World | The Middle Suicidal thoughts are very prevalent in this collection. I address hopelessness like …
subject: Book Notes (2022 - )
creator: david
date: 2023-02-15T21:19:02-05:00

Shorties (An Excerpt from Sonora Jha's New Novel, New Music from PONY, and more)
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description: Literary Hub shared an excerpt from Sonora Jha's novel The Laughter. Stream a new song by PONY. eBooks on sale for $3.99 today: The Last Holiday by Gil Scott-Heron The White Album by Joan Didion eBook on sale for $4.99 today: Italian Folktales by Italo Calvino Today's eBook deals February's best eBook deals. The Vapors' Dave Fenton discussed the band's hit "Turning Japanese" with the Guardian. When people ask if the song’s become an albatross, I say no. I’m pleased it happened to us. I’d rather be a one-hit wonder than a no-hit wonder. The Beat shared an excerpt from Rob Kirby's graphic memoir Marry Me a Little. Michele Catalano shared a playlist of love songs. Book Riot and Literary Hub recommended the week's best new books. Paste ranked Paramore's albums. The New Statesman recommended books to understand Putin's Russia. Stream a new song by Lana Del Rey. Public Books reconsidered the poetry of Samuel Taylor Coleridge on his 250th birthday. Stream three new songs by Feist. Jennifer Savran Kelly recommended novels about finding purpose through someone else at Electric Literature. Bandcamp Daily shared a guide to Yo La Tengo's discography on Matador Records. Malcolm Harris talked to Kirkus about his book Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World. Stream a new song by Beabadoobee. Tricycle interviewed David Sedaris. Stream two new songs by Island of Love. Asale Angel-Ajani discussed her novel A Country You Can Leave with Literary Hub. Stream two new Dry Cleaning songs. Vol. 1 Brooklyn interviewed author Paul Tremblay. Snail Mail covered Talking Heads’ “This Must Be The Place (Naive Melody)” with Mac DeMarco. Minorities in Publishing interviewed author Kashana Cauley. Stream a new song by crushed. This Is Horror interviewed author Stephen Graham Jones. If you appreciate the work that goes into Largehearted Boy, please consider making a donation.
subject: Shorties
creator: david
date: 2023-02-15T12:45:14-05:00

Anne K. Yoder's Playlist for Her Novel "The Enhancers"
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description: In the Book Notes series, authors create and discuss a music playlist that relates in some way to their recently published book. Previous contributors include Jesmyn Ward, Lauren Groff, Bret Easton Ellis, Celeste Ng, T.C. Boyle, Dana Spiotta, Amy Bloom, Aimee Bender, Roxane Gay, and many others. Anne K. Yoder's novel The Enhancers is a smart, surprising, and imaginative debut. Patrick Cottrell wrote of the book: "Animated by the absurdity of a Yorgos Lanthimos film, The Enhancers is a wildly original and contemporary tale about chemical augmentation, memory, yearning, and loss. Imagine the fearlessness and wild imagination of Jenny Erpenbeck if she had a background in the pharmaceutical industry and you might come close to approximating the tremendous brilliance of Anne Yoder." In her own words, here is Anne K. Yoder's Book Notes music playlist for her novel The Enhancers: I wouldn’t underestimate the effect that attending university in Athens, Georgia in the mid to late nineties had on the shape of my life— I was a mess at the time. I'd nearly been set up to fumble through my college years, which I proceeded to do in my own lost and peculiar way. The one saving grace during my time in undergrad was Athens’ music and arts scene. Michael Stipe was a fixture at local haunts, and although I never saw him play in Athens proper, I could walk a few blocks downtown or get a ride into Atlanta and see Radiohead, Vic Chesnutt, Mazzy Star, Jesus and Mary Chain, Jucifer, Man or Astroman, The Make-Up, Sonic Youth, Run DMC, Pavement, Fugazi, all varieties of Elephant Six, and so many others. Music was central to my life as a teenager, especially, so that writing a playlist for The Enhancers now seems like second nature. I often listen to music while I write — it’s as if the music I'm drawn to when writing helps articulate the mood on the page. If there was any single album that set the mood for The Enhancers, it was Darkside’s 2013 album, Psychic, with its ominous immersive quali…
subject: Book Notes (2022 - )
creator: david
date: 2023-02-14T06:41:20-05:00

Shorties (A Previously Unpublished Interview with Clarice Lispector, Ruhail Qaisar on His Debut Album, and more)
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description: The New Yorker shared a previously unpublished interview with Clarice Lispector. Ruhail Qaisar discussed his debut album Fatima with The Quietus. Time takes on a strange character in Fatima. Field recordings capture moments in time (dogs bark, children chatter), which float amidst time-warped samples and alien, atemporal drone. Qaisar suggests this was influenced by the way Fatima’s creation took place in the contrasting environments of rural Leh and the claustrophobic apartment he keeps in New Delhi. “Urban life out there is very straining. When I get home to Leh and look at the landscape, it feels like time works differently.” eBook on sale for $1.99 today: The Body Scout by Lincoln Michel eBook on sale for $3.99 today: Working by Studs Terkel Today's eBook deals February's best eBook deals. Paste profiled the band Girl Scout. Girl Scout’s jazz roots are not immediately evident on Real Life Human Garbage. As Jansson says herself, you don’t hear the arrangements on “Weirdo” and think, “Oh, that’s jazz.” Instead, it’s a structural and technical influence, as the average jazz song often jumps between two or three keys. Understanding how to navigate harmonics was a crash course that really helped spread out what kind of sounds the band could make. Kieran Goddard recommended books where work seeps into everyday life at Electric Literature. Stream a new song by the Lemon Twigs. The Atlantic recommended books to read as a pair. The Oxford American reconsidered Millie Jackson's country album, Just a Lil’ Bit Country, 40 years after its release. Just a Lil’ Bit Country has also never sounded more important. I hear it as a link in the long and ongoing history of how African American musicians have added new chapters in country’s development rather than simply serving as static influences from a semi-mythical past. Heinz Insu Fenkl recommended books with themes of spirituality and growth at The Week. Pitchfork remembered De La Soul’s Trugoy the Dove with six songs. Karen Rus…
subject: Shorties
creator: david
date: 2023-02-14T06:37:18-05:00

Curtis White's Playlist for His Book "Transcendent"
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description: In the Book Notes series, authors create and discuss a music playlist that relates in some way to their recently published book. Previous contributors include Jesmyn Ward, Lauren Groff, Bret Easton Ellis, Celeste Ng, T.C. Boyle, Dana Spiotta, Amy Bloom, Aimee Bender, Roxane Gay, and many others. Curtis White's Transcendent: Art and Dharma in a Time of Collapse is an smart and timely exploration of the West's fascination with Buddhism. Publishers Weekly wrote of the book: "Provocative...[Transcendent] amounts to a convincing case that will resonate with progressives seeking to 'free ourselves from the [capitalistic] world that we were born into' and 'change the way we live.' Scholars of Buddhism will benefit from White’s shrewd takes." In his own words, here is Curtis White's Book Notes music playlist for his book Transcendent: Art and Dharma in a Time of Collapse: Given the nature of my new book, this playlist writes itself. I say that because much of Transcendent is about music and music’s endearing ability to provide pleasures that are so intense that they border on the mystical, or at least the mysterious. Father John Misty, “Hollywood Forever Cemetery Sings” I open the book by wondering why my sense of the best cuts on Father John Misty’s 2012 album, Fear Fun, so nearly reflects the judgment of some fifty million fellow listeners on Spotify. Is it our biology, something in the song that trips a dopamine trigger? Or, worse, is it merely that the song is an algorhythmic hit, a contagion of repeat listens that is finally empty of meaning? Or is it something more mysterious than that? As Hua Hsu observes in his new book Stay True, “I finally felt in my body how music works. A chorus of nonbelievers, channeling God.” Idles, “1049 Gotho” Musical transcendence takes many forms. It’s not all about channeling God. There is also social transcendence in music. Music can ask us to rise up and retake our lives from what oppresses us. The neo-punk band Idles thrashes the conv…
subject: Book Notes (2022 - )
creator: david
date: 2023-02-13T07:57:59-05:00

Shorties (Charmaine Craig on Her New Novel, Caroline Polachek Profiled, and more)
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description: Charmaine Graig discussed her novel My Nemesis with Shondaland. As a parent of girls and an educator now, I have too often noticed the way that girls who don’t happen to be of the dominant ethnicity or culture are made to feel insufficiently assertive, as if a quiet voice or demeanor isn’t also having a voice. As if you need to raise your voice to have a voice, to be strong. In the book, I wanted to explore how Tessa’s allegiance to certain notions — about what strength looks like — risks being intolerant. Even her ideas about feminism have a certain strain of misogyny, or at least of anti-femininity. Vulture profiled singer-songwriter Caroline Polachek. Polachek, 37, has spent nearly two decades in the music industry, seamlessly shifting from early-aughts indie-band girl (she co-headlined Chairlift, a quirky synth-pop band we both agree could have existed only during the brief, naïve hopefulness of the Obama era) to esteemed songwriter and producer (she co-wrote Beyoncé’s “No Angel” as well as songs for Charli XCX, Travis Scott, and Pentatonix spinoff Superfruit) to concept-album artist (one-off experimental ambient releases under the aliases Ramona Lisa and CEP) to a solo artist writing and producing avant-garde electro-pop under her government name, all while singing arias and starring in Loewe campaigns on the side. February's best eBook deals. Molly Tuttle shared a bluegrass cover of Olivia Rodrigo’s “Good 4 U.” Shondaland interviewed author DK Nnuro. All Songs Considered and Pitchfork recommended the week's best new albums. BuzzFeed recommended science fiction novels by Black authors. Bandcamp Daily profiled the band Young Fathers. The group has certainly put in the hours to get here. Massaquoi and Kayus Bankole were both attending the same Edinburgh high school and met Hastings while they were all still in their teens. They started gigging in 2008, and released two mixtapes in 2012—winning the Scottish Album of the Year award for the second, then bagging the …
subject: Shorties
creator: david
date: 2023-02-13T06:46:19-05:00

Miriam Darlington's Playlist for Her Book "The Wise Hours"
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description: In the Book Notes series, authors create and discuss a music playlist that relates in some way to their recently published book. Previous contributors include Jesmyn Ward, Lauren Groff, Bret Easton Ellis, Celeste Ng, T.C. Boyle, Dana Spiotta, Amy Bloom, Aimee Bender, Roxane Gay, and many others. Miriam Darlington's The Wise Hours is a fascinating and poignant blend of nature writing and memoir. The Wall Street Journal wrote of the book: "Unfailingly precise and lovingly poetic. . . . Nature writing of the first order." In her own words, here is Miriam Darlington's Book Notes music playlist for her book The Wise Hours: The owl has captivated the human imagination for millennia as a predator, messenger, emblem of wisdom and portent of doom. For this book, I travelled across Europe to find every species of owl in its natural habitat and to scrutinize its mythology, behavior, ecology and survival. At the same time, my son Benji succumbed to a disabling neurological condition, and as I listened at night to the heartbeat of my own family, my endeavor became entangled with a search for his cure. The Wise Hours is a story about curiosity, healing and hope in this time of ecological crisis. 1. Featherstone by The Paper Kites I listened to this track at least once a day during the early iterations of the start of The Wise Hours. The opening chords sounded like a ticking clock, as if there was not much time to do this, and the lyrics connected me to the process of being called outside by the birds during the Spring days. For me it paints a map of where I live, drawing the pathway out of the suburbs into the fields and meadows. I was performing a kind of deep listening to the English countryside around my home during the early drafts of the Barn Owls section of the book. Whenever I encountered an owl, it vanished just as quickly, and the song seems to express their ethereal elusiveness, but also my passionate connection to this beautiful bird, so it became a song of longing to …
subject: Book Notes (2022 - )
creator: david
date: 2023-02-10T13:42:19-05:00

Shorties (Rebecca Makkai's Rules of Literary Etiquette, Quasi Profiled, and more)
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description: Rebecca Makkai shared rules for literary etiquette. SPIN profiled the band Quasi. Weiss and Coomes have been linchpins in the Pacific Northwest music community since the 1980s. Weiss was a fan of Coomes’s wry, erudite San Francisco-based folk rock band, The Donner Party. They met, married, and started making music together. While the marriage only lasted four years, their friendship and creative collaboration has endured for decades. Along the way they’ve each made significant contributions to indie rock, working with dozens of other musical partners. Weiss has drummed with Stephen Malkmus, Bright Eyes, and The Shins. Coomes played with Elliott Smith, Built to Spill, and, most recently, Jon Spencer. But they’ve always returned to Quasi. February's best eBook deals. eBook on sale for $1.99 today: The World We Found by Thrity Umrigar eBook on sale for $2.99 today: Afrofuturism by Ytasha Womack eBook on sale for $3.99 today: Little Birds by Anaïs Nin All Things Considered visited the Fashion Institute of Technology's exhibit that features 50 years of fashion in hip hop. The Beat shared an excerpt from Fabien Grolleau and Ewen Blain's graphic novel Guardian of Fukushima. Dan Charnas explored the legacy of an eatrly J Dilla beat tape at Pitchfork. But as great as Donuts is, there is a more obscure piece of collected work that best illuminates the ongoing influence of James Dewitt Yancey: a humble beat tape created eight years prior, when he was still going by the name Jay Dee. Matt Bell reviewed one of my favorite novels of the year, Isabel Waldner's Sterling Karat Gold, at the New York Times. Waidner grounds their surrealism in the history of England’s bigotry against queer people and immigrants; in the ideas and images of other writers, artists and musicians; and in recognizable sci-fi tropes. Stream a new song by Esther Rose. National Geographic UK recommended books set in U.S. cities. Stream five new songs by M83. Davon Loeb talked to Electric Literature about his me…
subject: Shorties
creator: david
date: 2023-02-10T07:10:27-05:00

Geoffrey D. Morrison's Playlist for His Novel "Falling Hour"
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description: In the Book Notes series, authors create and discuss a music playlist that relates in some way to their recently published book. Previous contributors include Jesmyn Ward, Lauren Groff, Bret Easton Ellis, Celeste Ng, T.C. Boyle, Dana Spiotta, Amy Bloom, Aimee Bender, Roxane Gay, and many others. Geoffrey D. Morrison's Falling Hour is an impressive debut, an existential and innovative novel that dazzles with every page. Jen Craig wrote of the book: "In Falling Hour, an immensity is condensed into a single day, a single park, a single empty frame. To themes of loss and dispossession that recall in scope and sensitivity the work of Teju Cole and W.G. Sebald, Morrison brings the attentive eye of a poet and a truly impish sense of the absurd." In his own words, here is Geoffrey D. Morrison's Book Notes music playlist for his debut novel Falling Hour: In Falling Hour, a 31-year-old data-entry clerk named Hugh Dalgarno wanders alone in a park in an unnamed Southwestern Ontario town. He is there to sell a picture frame he found in the street, but the buyer never arrives. In fact, no one arrives, and no cars drive by, and after a time even airplanes stop crossing above him in the sky. But a red-winged blackbird is singing, and its song sets Hugh down a long and tangled pathway in his mind. Hugh thinks his brain is broken, and his thoughts tend to spin outwards in a “superfine fray” of digressions, allusions, repetitions, and returns. He comes to understand that, for obscure metaphysical reasons, he cannot leave the park. While he waits - no longer sure what for - he reflects, in a state of elegy and rage, on failed risings and falling angels, monsters of capital and empires of dust. Hugh was born in Aberdeen in the Northeast of Scotland, but raised on the West Coast of Canada by a great-aunt and great-uncle who left Aberdeen in the early 1970s. As he wanders the park, Hugh is anchored by the Scottish and Irish songs he learned from his guardians. Being products of an oral fo…
subject: Book Notes (2022 - )
creator: david
date: 2023-02-09T11:34:24-05:00

Shorties (An Excerpt from Gunnhild Øyehaug's New Collection, An Interview with Black Belt Eagle Scout, and more)
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description: Electric Literature shared an excerpt from Gunnhild Øyehaug's story collection Evil Flowers. UPROXX interviewed Black Belt Eagle Scout. February's best eBook deals. eBook on sale for $1.99 today: October by China Miéville Stream a new song by Indigo De Souza. Mark Whitaker discussed his book Saying It Loud: 1966 — The Year Black Power Challenged the Civil Rights Movement with Fresh Air. Jeff Tweedy's second book World Within a Song: Music That Changed My Life and Life That Changed My Music will be published in November. Electric Literature recommended action-packed novels abour art heists. Stat Significant quantified the public distaste for Nickelback. Kaiser Gibson talked to Shondaland about her debut novel. Stream a new Algiers song. The OTHERPPL podcast interviewed author Ayobami Adebayo. Bandcamp Daily profiled the Go-Between's Robert Forster. The Paris Review and Poets.org interviewed poet Maggie Millner. I hadn't imagined writing a single, book-length narrative poem. When we learn to write poems, we usually learn to write these very small, discrete lyric objects, and so I had always imagined that my first book would be a collection of things that I had foraged from various years of my life. But because I had two year-long fellowships, the ostensible goal of which were to write a book, I was able to be more ambitious. The momentum of this particular poetic form took hold, and I followed it until I had the bulk of a manuscript. Then I realized the prose sections also belonged in it–that the verse needed to be aerated. Stream a new song by LIES. Members of LAANDS talked to BrooklynVegan about the influences behind their new album. Aquarium Drunkard interviewed singer-songwriter Steve Tilston. If you appreciate the work that goes into Largehearted Boy, please consider making a donation.
subject: Shorties
creator: david
date: 2023-02-09T09:43:53-05:00

Stephen Graham Jones's Playlist for His Novel "Don't Fear the Reaper"
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description: In the Book Notes series, authors create and discuss a music playlist that relates in some way to their recently published book. Previous contributors include Jesmyn Ward, Lauren Groff, Bret Easton Ellis, Celeste Ng, T.C. Boyle, Dana Spiotta, Amy Bloom, Aimee Bender, Roxane Gay, and many others. Stephen Graham Jones impresses again with Don't Fear the Reaper, a novel as unsettling as it is smartly written. Publishers Weekly wrote of the book: "Jones expertly blends snappy graveyard humor with nail-biting suspense, and he gives his characters distinctive personalities that distinguish them from the underdeveloped body fodder common to most slasher scenarios. This characteristically clever gore-fest proves Jennifer to be a horror heroine worthy of many more adventures." In his own words, here is Stephen Graham Jones's Book Notes music playlist for his novel Don't Fear the Reaper: The first novel I wrote, I wrote it to a single song playing on repeat. Ten months of that song, and I never got tired of it (Marty Robbins, “El Paso”). This was 1998. Since then, I’ve learned about playlists, and make a new one for each novel. This one for Don’t Fear the Reaper is the first time I’ve re-used a playlist. Reason I haven’t done that before is that the same songs will land me in the same emotional terrain as that previous book, and I need to be forging into new spaces. But, since Reaper’s the second book in a trilogy, dialing up that old playlist I’d lived with writing the first installment, My Heart is a Chainsaw, it dropped me right back into Indian Lake. It was like coming home. And, these are long books, so this is a tall playlist—how about I just annotate the first ten tracks: “AbOriginal,” Frank Waln How Scorcese uses “Gimme Shelter” over and over to pull the audience into the epic feel of this story he’s telling? Frank Waln’s got that same thing going on here, and it’s the perfect way to start a hundred writing sessions. I mean, if I weren’t Blackfeet, maybe I could take …
subject: Book Notes (2022 - )
creator: david
date: 2023-02-08T06:32:56-05:00

Shorties (A Profile of Mieko Kawakami, A Profile of Screaming Females, and more)
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description: The New York Times Magazine profiled author Mieko Kawakami. SPIN profiled the band Screaming Females. Screaming Females emerged from the nascent punk rock scene brewing in the quiet corners of a small town as a fierce firestorm of emotive fury, artisans at the helm of instruments they’re deftly able to wring every last hint of songcraft from. Drummer Jarrett Dougherty is precise and thunderous behind his drum kit, and Abbate serves as a keenly sharp needle of rhythm on bass keeping all things stitched tight. The heaviest of material all stitched together with seamless grace. Paternoster possesses a controlled demolition of an operatic and thunderous voice while being widely praised for her guitar work. February's best eBook deals. eBook on sale for $1.99 today: Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer Tom Verlaine, book buyer. Twitter Verse interviewed author Bethanne Patrick. Paste reconsidered the Stooges' Raw Power album as it turns 50 this year. The New York Times recommended books by Colette. Bandcamp Daily explored Ecuador's alt-pop scene. Book Riot and Literary Hub recommended the week's est new books. Atwood Magazine profiled the band Personal Trainer. Debutiful interviewed author Delia Cai. Richard Evans discussed his book Listening To The Music The Machines Make: Electronic Pop 1978 – 1983 with SPIN. Marisa Crane discussed her new novel I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself with Electric Literature. Stream a new song by Shalom. Full Stop interviewed author Lawrence Millmam. Barbra Streisand's memoir, My Name is Barbra, will be published in November. Matthew Salesses talked to The Rumpus about his new novel. Stream a new song by bdrmm. StatORec interviewed author Erika T. Wurth. JAR: What draws you to horror? ETW: In some ways, it’s coming back to my nerd roots. I used to wander the library shelves at lunch, running from my bullies—and I’d come across books by Stephen King. I loved every one. The other part of it is that it allows me to express the darker parts of the gr…
subject: Shorties
creator: david
date: 2023-02-08T06:09:29-05:00

Shorties (Jennifer Maritza McCauley's Recommended Afro-Latina Writers, An Interview with John Cale, and more)
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description: Jennifer Maritza McCauley recommended Afro-Latina writers you should read. SPIN interviewed John Cale. What drew you to the avant-garde side of things at a young age? It was really exciting to do the avant-garde. I understood what the roles were for Aaron Copeland and a bunch of really European composers, and Europe has a documented history of advanced thinking in music. I thought it would be interesting to find out what other groups of people from different parts of the world and their idea of what avant-garde meant. What you’re really looking at is how people share conversations, in the sense that there’s a conversation going on between the composer and the audience. These generate other feelings and other ideas. I ended up paying attention to John Cage. They say that Le Monte was the most interesting American musical composer and that he was working and deliberating in different arenas than Stockhausen would. The whole European thing was hung up in intonation — in how melodic and chordal developments in the music were really stuck in one place. February's best eBook deals. eBooks on sale for $1.99 today: We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver The Whole Five Feet by Christopher R. Beha eBook on sale for $2.99 today: Maurice by E. M. Forster Bandcamp Daily profiled L.A. experimental music label Dragon’s Eye Recordings. In 2018, Novak implemented a policy to only accept demos from under-represented voices. The releases that have followed have all been from LGBTQ+, female/non-binary, disabled, and/or neurodivergent artists. “The big change was that I really tried to stop curating the aesthetics of the label,” he says. “I felt like, in order to uplift marginalized voices, I also needed to trust that they knew better than I did what was relevant in their community.” As a result, the sonics of the label have spun out in a ton of exciting directions. Kirkus recommended books that offer hope for the climate crisis. Stream a new Shonen Knife song. The New York Times…
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creator: david
date: 2023-02-07T07:07:19-05:00