Literary Hub shared an excerpt from Hila Blum’s novel How to Love Your Daughter.
Stream a new song by illuminati hotties.
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This week’s Largehearted Boy newsletter shared a summer playlist as well as the usual links, likes, and weekly recap.
Jenny Xie discussed her debut novel with the OTHERPPL podcast.
NPR Music shared a roséwave playlist.
Harper’s shared new nonfiction by Rachel Kushner.
Stream a new song by Poppy.
Bookin’ w/ Jason Jefferies interviewed author Jim Ruland.
Pitchfork profiled the band Lifeguard.
Fantagraphics announced My Favorite Thing is Monsters Book Two, the sequel to Emil Ferris’s brilliant graphic novel My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, will be published in April.
Stream a new song by Big Thief.
Cleo Watson recommended novels with good sex scenes at the Guardian.
Bandcamp Daily profiled British experimental folk musician Mike Cooper.
Anjum Hasan talked to Electric Literature about her novel History’s Angel.
We need poetry to puncture illusions of grandeur and keep us from completely selling out, it’s a necessary safety valve.
Stream a new Mountain Goats song.
Debutiful interviewed Kit Maude on translating Aurora Venturini’s novel Cousins.
Aquarium Drunkard interviewed singer-songwriter Gia Margaret.
Andrew Leland discussed his new memoir The Country of the Blind: A Memoir at the End of Sight with Kurt Vonnegut Radio (AKA Gabe Hudson).
Stream a new song by Who Is She?.
Sarah Rose Etter discussed her new novel with the Chicago Review of Books.
Stream a new song by Florry.
Colson Whitehead answered the Proust questionnaire at Vanity Fair.
Stream a new song by Islands.
Literary Hub shared a poem from Terrance Hayes’s new collection So To Speak.
Ta-Nehisi Coates attended a South Carolina school board meeting about banning his book.