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August 4, 2020
Shorties (An Interview with Raven Leilani, August's Best Albums and more)
Raven Leilani discussed her novel Luster with BuzzFeed.
“When we’re talking about the sort of dysfunctional urban hungry woman, what we’re generally talking about is the white millennial experience,” explained Leliani in a video chat in mid-July. “I wanted to write a Black woman who is dogged and hungry and who fucks up.”
Leilani talked writing sex scenes at Vulture.
The A.V. Club previewed August's best albums.
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Crossing to Safety by Wallace Stegner
The Keepers of the House by Shirley Ann Grau
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NPR Music recapped July's best albums and songs.
Akwaeke Emezi discussed her new novel The Death of Vivek Oji with All Things Considered.
...one of the things that I wanted to challenge in this book is the idea of a linear progression when it comes to gender identity. There's this concept that, you know, you're in the closet, you are something that you're not. And then you have a marked point that is a coming out. And then you live openly as who you always were.
Cover Me recapped July's best cover songs.
The Atlantic profiled author Gayl Jones.
What Faulkner saw in the haunted old mansions of Oxford, Mississippi, Jones saw in the ghosts of the Black dead. She was a pioneer in grappling with the contemporary legacy of slavery, and her debut was praised by the likes of John Updike, in The New Yorker, as well as a host of Black writers. “Corregidora is the most brutally honest and painful revelation of what has occurred, and is occurring, in the souls of Black men and women,” James Baldwin wrote.
NPR Music considered the past, present, and future of southern rap.
Esquire recommended Stephen King Books.
Vogue, Entertainment Weekly, Lambda Literary, Bustle, Amazon
Big Joanie covered Solange's "Cranes in the Sky."
Bustle and USA Today recommended the week's best new books.
BrooklynVegan recapped July's best songs.
Electric Literature interviewed author Ingrid Persaud.
Stream a new song by Cults.
Town & Country interviewed filmmaker and cartoonist Marjane Satrapi.
Stereogum reconsidered Wavves' King of the Beach album on its 10th anniversary.
Bookforum interviewed author Adam Levin.
Guernica interviewed poet Rachel Eliza Griffiths.
Literary Hub shared an excerpt from Edmund White's novel A Saint From Texas.
The Los Angeles Review of Books interviewed author Carlos Fonseca.
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