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March 24, 2020
Shorties (Recommended Quarantine Reading, The Best Rock Memoirs of All Time, and more)
PBS NewsHour and Toronto independent bookstores recommended quarantine reading.
Rolling Stone listed the best rock memoirs of all time.
Free eBook today:
I Am Malala by Malala Yousafzai
eBook on sale for $1.99 today:
High Crime Area by Joyce Carol Oates
NPR Music is keeping a calendar of online live virtual concerts.
NPR shared a playlist of sings about the Coronavirus.
Vulture interviewed author Hilary Mantel.
Soccer Mommy played a Tiny Desk Concert from home.
Hernan Diaz recommended books on isolation and loneliness at Electric Literature.
Roger and Brian Eno talked to All Songs Considered about their new album.
The Washington Post interviewed author Barbara Ehrenreich.
Vanessa Carlton recommended Liz Phair's memoir Horror Stories at NPR.
I'm loving Liz Phair's book Horror Stories. The concept is unique: Each chapter is a story of shame or regret that she has carried throughout her life. It's an unpacking of her darkest and most human stories, and with each chapter you see how these tales were integral in shaping who she is as a person and artist.
Sarah Perry talked books and reading with Book Marks.
Stream a new Mark Lanegan song.
The Creative Independent interviewed author Lidia Yuknavich.
Stream a new Car Seat Headrest song.
The New York Times and Literary Hub shared excerpts from Emily St. John Mandel's novel The Glass Hotel.
World Cafe shared a playlist for the socially distanced.
Valeria Luiselli has been awarded the Rathbones Folio prize for third novel.
Stream a new song by Sorry.
The New York Times shared an excerpt from N.K. Jemisin's novel The City We Became.
Lena Dunham is serializing a "choose your own adventure" novel at Vogue.
Cameron Esposito recommended books for a queer road trip at Literary Hub.
Priests’ Katie Alice Greer has released new music.
BOMB shared an excerpt from Rebecca Dinerstein Knight's novel Hex.
Grouper’s Liz Harris discussed the books of Octavia E. Butler at Jezebel.
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)
Flash Dancers (authors pair original flash fiction with a song
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
