A Playlist of Dog Songs, Plus Links, & Likes

A dog-themed playlist, an oral history of Crass Records, interviews with Lorrie Moore and Califone’s Tim Rutili, new fiction from Jac Jemc, and more

Hello from Brooklyn, where the air quality index has dipped from “hazardous” to merely “unhealthy for sensitive groups.”

This week’s themed playlist is songs about (or mentioning) dogs. A year ago Lily passed, my companion and friend for 16 years. When Largehearted Boy was my full-time job, she made sure I left the house during the day, sniffed the sunshine, and made new friends wherever we went. These songs are for her.

Largehearted Likes:

1. Jodi Chromey (supergenius, book blogger, and the brains behind THE Replacements’ fan site PaulWesterberg.net) is having some health issues and needs our help.

2. Pulled high, rolled low or butchered at the back: The art of the football sock

   Fascinating article at The Athletic on the fashion of on-field soccer socks.

3. Taco Bell’s vegan Crunchrap
   Priced similarly to the original Crunchwrap Supreme at $4.89, the Vegan Crunchwrap will be launched on the menus of Taco Bell locations in Los Angeles, New York City, and Orlando — cities where vegan populations are known to be more prominent.

4. Tina Turner street art in Brooklyn

   Hodder

   

   Hodder on Instagram: “Bushwick Collective Block Party 2023- Tina Turner Simply The Best. We lost such a legend, and I know her life and story will continue to influence and inspire generations to come. Wherever she is right now she is shining bright I’m sure of it. ✨✨✨ Had such a wonderful time thank you so much to Joe, all the volunteers, artists, sponsors, and everyone who helped make this event so amazing ❤️ @thebushwickcollective @kobrapaint @tinaturner @modelousa 427 Troutman St. Bushwick NY”

   June 5, 2023

   

5. Body Horror by Anne Elizabeth Moore
   One of my favorite nonfiction books is available in a new edition from the Feminist Press. Read/stream Moore’s playlist for the book at Largehearted Boy.

6. Cold salad season
   Potato salad, macaroni salad, Caprese salad, summer is the time to stash a few of these in your fridge and eat alongside a sandwich or wrap.

A Playlist of Songs for Dogs (20 songs, 69 minutes for a howling good time)

Largehearted Links

1. An essay by Kristen Arnett on planning a queer wedding in Florida

2. Este Haim on being executive music producer for National Geographic’s historical drama A Small Light
   …I've always been a fan of score, and the John Williams and the Henry Mancinis and the Morricones of the world. I love listening to score and soundtracks. Also, I love film, always have. So this is a nice little marriage between the two worlds that I get to straddle.

   

3. Jami Attenberg’s anthology of writers’ advice, 1000 Words, will be published in January

4. The Quietus’s oral history of Crass records
   The label Crass Records was started in 1979 to remove control of Crass’ output from the hands of the music industry completely after the pressing plant that manufactured the original Small Wonder release of The Feeding Of The Five Thousand refused to include opening track ‘Reality Asylum’ on the grounds of blasphemy.

5. Megan Abbott’s essay on reproductive rights at Vogue

6. A Conversation between Waxaahatchee’s Katie Crutchfield and Wednesday’s Karly Hartzman

7. Aaron Burch’s newsletter Short Story, Long launched with new fiction by Jac Jemc

8. Reconsidering Radiohead’s Hail to the Thief album on its 20th anniversary
   These days, it seems a foregone conclusion that Hail To The Thief is the shaggy, flawed album in Radiohead’s history. While you might quibble about which songs to cut, pretty much everyone seems to agree that the album’s primary failing is that it could’ve used a bit more editing…

9. Brontez Purnell on The Little Mermaid
   This is not just a “children’s movie,” not at all. The Little Mermaid was made for people my age, trapped in the baggage of histories both collective and oh so deeply personal.

10. Aquarium Drunkard’s interview with Califone’s Tim Rutili
    The world feels a bit crackly and frantic. Adding some elements of old radio music from childhood to these songs felt good.

11. This Guardian profile of Lorrie Moore
    “I sort of see this book as not very funny. But maybe I’m wrong,” Moore says, holding her hand to her mouth to stifle a giggle, an endearing habit that, like her fiction, gives the impression she is always suppressing a joke. “I kind of saw it more as a grief-stricken book than a funny one.”

Last Week’s LHB Feature Posts

Aaron Tucker’s playlist for his novel Soldiers, Hunters, Not Cowboys

Claire Fuller’s playlist for her novel The Memory of Animals

Jon Michaud’s playlist for his book Last Call at Coogan’s

Szilvia Molnar’s playlist for her novel The Nursery

Willie Edward Taylor Carver Jr.’s playlist for his poetry collection Gay Poems for Red States

June’s best eBook deals