Blog: largehearted boy

Shorties (30 Things to Tell a Book Snob, R.I.P. Scott Miller, and more)

Nick Hornby shares 30 things to tell a book snob . R.I.P., singer-songwriter Scott Miller. The New York Times Magazine profiles author John Le Carre . Readers like myself, mostly allergic to spy stories and genre narratives, have long been drawn to le Carre's stuff because of the wit and incisiveness he manages to insert into pained understatement. His early books sketched, as he once put it about [...]

Daily Downloads (Josh Ritter, Futurebirds, and more)

Link Text:...And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead: "Flower Card Games"
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Link Text:Acid Mothers Temple: "Dark Stars in the Dazzling Sky"
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Link Text:Akron/Family: "Light Emerges"
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Link Text:Alejandro Escovedo: "Velvet Guitar"
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Link Text:Carrie Rodriguez: "Lake Harriet"
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Link Text:Drive-By Truckers: "The Buford Stick"
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Link Text:Efren: "Dirty Bourbon Blues"
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Link Text:Futurebirds: "Virginia Slims"
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Link Text:Josh Ritter: "New Lover"
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Link Text:Mother Hips: "Third Floor Story"
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Book Notes - Jake Arnott "The House of Rumour"

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 Bret Easton Ellis , Kate Christensen , Kevin Brockmeier , George Pelecanos , Dana Spiotta , Amy Bloom , Aimee Bender , Myla Goldberg , Heidi Julavits , Hari Kunzru , and many others. Jake Arnott's The House of Rumour as ambitious and curiously constructed a novel as I have read in years, a linked [...]

Book Notes - Leah Umansky "Domestic Uncertainties"

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 Bret Easton Ellis , Kate Christensen , Kevin Brockmeier , George Pelecanos , Dana Spiotta , Amy Bloom , Aimee Bender , Myla Goldberg , Heidi Julavits , Hari Kunzru , and many others. Leah Umansky finely details the beauty and clarity of both destruction and reconstruction in her powerful debut poetry collection, Domestic Uncertainties : [...]

Shorties (The Art of Literary Translation, An Indie Rock Album Inspired by Nabokov, and more)

Literary translators talk to the Irish Times about the tricks of their trade. Stream Dead Leaf Echo's new album Thought and Language , inspired by the writing of Vladimir Nabokov. The Comics Journal interviews cartoonist Genevieve Castree about her graphic novel Susceptible . Twitter Music has launched. [...]

Daily Downloads (A Bonnaroo Sampler Album, METZ, and more)

Every day, Daily Downloads offers 10 free and legal mp3 downloads, plus free and legal live sets from around the internet. Today's free and legal mp3 downloads: Adventure : "Laser Blast" [mp3] from Weird Work (out April 30th) Airstrip : "Sleepy" [mp3] from Willing Airstrip : "Pleasure Center" [mp3] from Willing [...]
Artist:Adventure
Title:Laser Blast
File Name:SoundCloud
Genre:Electronic
Year:2013
Artist:New Mexico
Title:Wandering
File Name:SoundCloud
Genre:Rock
Year:2013
Artist:Silicon Ballet
Title:Nowadays
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Bitrate:320 kbps
Year:2013
Artist:THE MONEY GO ROUND
Title:Endless Sun
File Name:SoundCloud
Genre:Indie Rock
Artist:WhoaBear
Title:Long Time
File Name:SoundCloud
Genre:Electronic Rock

Book Notes - Amy Brill "The Movement of Stars"

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 Bret Easton Ellis , Kate Christensen , Kevin Brockmeier , George Pelecanos , Dana Spiotta , Amy Bloom , Aimee Bender , Myla Goldberg , Heidi Julavits , Hari Kunzru , and many others. Vividly told and meticulously researched, Amy Brill's The Movement of Stars is one of the year's finest debut novels. [...]

Book Notes - B.J. Hollars "Sightings"

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 Bret Easton Ellis , Kate Christensen , Kevin Brockmeier , George Pelecanos , Dana Spiotta , Amy Bloom , Aimee Bender , Myla Goldberg , Heidi Julavits , Hari Kunzru , and many others. B.J. Hollars' short story collection Sightings shares refreshingly absurd coming-of-age stories, punctuated with a perfect sense of humor and impeccable storytelling [...]

Shorties (The New William Hazlitt Essay Prize, Toure on His New Prince Book, and more)

The William Hazlitt Essay Prize will award 15,000 British pounds to its winner. The Nervous Breakdown interviews Toure about his new book I Would Die 4 U: Why Prince Became an Icon . Frank Bill talks to San Diego CityBeat about his debut novel, Donnybrook . The New York Times profiles X5 [...]

Daily Downloads (The Baptist Generals, Japanther, and more)

Every day, Daily Downloads offers 10 free and legal mp3 downloads, plus free and legal live sets from around the internet. Today's free and legal mp3 downloads: The Baptist Generals : "Broken Glass" [mp3] from Jackleg Devotional to the Heart (out May 21st) Beams : "Be My Brother" [mp3] from Just Rivers (out May 14th) [...]
Artist:Beams
Title:1 Be My Brother
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Year:2013
Artist:Japanther
Title:Stolen Flowers
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Artist:Manzanita Falls
Title:Crabgrass
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Year:2012
Artist:Radiation City
Title:Zombies
File Name:SoundCloud
Genre:Beautiful
Year:2013
Artist:Speck Mountain
Title:Lies
File Name:SoundCloud
Genre:Alternative
Artist:The Baptist Generals
Title:Broken Glass
Link Text:"Broken Glass"
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Genre:Alternative
Year:2013
Artist:Touché
Title:Bad Dreams
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Book Notes - Jessica Soffer "Tomorrow There Will Be Apricots"

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 Bret Easton Ellis , Kate Christensen , Kevin Brockmeier , George Pelecanos , Dana Spiotta , Amy Bloom , Aimee Bender , Myla Goldberg , Heidi Julavits , Hari Kunzru , and many others. Jessica Soffer's Tomorrow There Will Be Apricots is an exceptional novel, filled with well-wrought characters and sharp, beautiful prose. This profound [...]

Atomic Books Comics Preview - April 17, 2013

Atomic Books Comics Preview - April 17, 2013 In the weekly Atomic Books Comics Preview , Benn Ray highlights notable new comics and graphic novels. Benn Ray is the owner of Atomic Books , an independent bookstore in Baltimore. The Mobtown Shank is his blog, and his comic Said What? is syndicated weekly in the Baltimore Sun's B-Paper. Atomic Books has been named one of Bizarre Magazine's 51 geekiest places on the planet , as well as one of Flavorwire's 10 greatest comic and graphic novel stores in America . [...]

Largehearted WORD Books of the Week - April 17, 2013

Largehearted WORD Books of the Week - April 17, 2013 In the Largehearted Word series, the staff of Brooklyn's WORD bookstore highlights several new books released this week. WORD is an independent neighborhood bookstore in Greenpoint, the northernmost neighborhood of Brooklyn, that recently celebrated its sixth anniversary. Our primary goal is to be whatever our community needs us to be, which currently means carrying a lot of paperback fiction (especially classics), cookbooks, board books, and absurdly cute cards and stationery. In addition, we're fiends for a good event, from the classic author reading and Q&A to potlucks and [...]

Shorties (Game of Thrones' Use of Indie Music, A Map of Literary Los Angeles, and more)

Wired examines the use of indie music on Game of Thrones . Still, combining a world of warring kingdoms and dragons with music from acts that would seem at home at Coachella is risky business. Consider the Hold Steady’s version of "The Bear and the Maiden Fair," which followed a very shocking and abrupt turn at the end of last night's episode. Depending on who you ask, its placement was either part of "one of the best cut-to-credits in recent memory" or "WTF," but overall reaction to the song has been relatively positive. [...]

Daily Downloads (Lil Daggers, Zoned Out, and more)

Every day, Daily Downloads offers 10 free and legal mp3 downloads, plus free and legal live sets from around the internet. Today's free and legal mp3 downloads: Blindfolder : "A Little Thing to Do" [mp3] from Artifact Effect The Coyote Affair : free and legal Love and Other Drugs EP [mp3] [...]
Link Text:"A Little Thing to Do"
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Title:long slow love's hum
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Genre:chamber pop
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Artist:Pressed And
Title:Creed Unlove
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Genre:Electronic
Year:2013
Artist:switchflicker
Title:Put Your Collar Up
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Genre:Indie
Artist:The Mast
Title:UpUpUp
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Book Notes - Boaz Yakin "Jerusalem: A Family Portrait"

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 Bret Easton Ellis , Kate Christensen , Kevin Brockmeier , George Pelecanos , Dana Spiotta , Amy Bloom , Aimee Bender , Myla Goldberg , Heidi Julavits , Hari Kunzru , and many others. Boaz Yakin's graphic novel Jerusalem is a heart-rending account of the Israel of the 1940s, told from the perspective of two [...]

Try It Before You Buy It - April 16, 2013 Music Releases

Try It Before You Buy It - April 16, 2013 Music Releases Try It Before You Buy It features free and legal mp3 downloads and full album streams from the week's music releases : 1939 Ensemble: Howl and Bite 1939 Ensemble: "Sabotage" [mp3] Allison Weiss: Say What You Mean full album stream [...]

Shorties (Granta's List of the Most Promising British Novelists Under 40, Patti Smith's Advice to Young Artists, and more)

Granta's list of the 20 most promising British novelists under 40 . Congratulations to Largehearted Boy Book Notes contributors Tahmima Anam , Steven Hall , and Adam Thirwell . Patti Smith offers advice to young artists . Spin lists the top 100 alternative albums of the 1960s. The Telegraph recommends modern Turkish literature . [...]

Daily Downloads (ATO Records Spring Sampler, Dirty Fences and more)

Every day, Daily Downloads offers 10 free and legal mp3 downloads, plus free and legal live sets from around the internet. Today's free and legal mp3 downloads: Aoife O'Donovan : free and legal Red & White & Blue & Gold EP [mp3] Dirty Fences : "White Lies" [mp3] from Too High to Kross [...]
Artist:Dirty Fences
Title:White Lies
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Genre:Rock
Year:2013
Artist:Jont
Title:Lucky Leaf Falls
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Year:2012
Artist:Sugar Stems
Title:6 Feet Under
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Genre:Pop/Rock
Year:2012
Artist:UNMAP
Title:When To Lead And When To Follow
File Name:SoundCloud
Genre:electro-soul
Year:2013
Artist:Valente
Title:05 Human
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Year:2013

This Week's Interesting Music Releases - April 16, 2013

This Week's Interesting Music Releases - April 16, 2013 The big music releases this week include Iron and Wine's Ghost on Ghost , The Flaming Lips' The Terror , and Yeah Yeah Yeahs' Mosquito . Way To Blue - The Songs Of Nick Drake collects covers of the iconic singer-songwriter's music from Robyn Hitchcock, Vashti Bunyan, and others. David Bowie's Aladdin Sane album has been remastered to celebrate its 40th anniversary. What new releases are [...]
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