A Pride Playlist, Plus Links & Likes
A Pride playlist, Kristopher Jansma on persistence vs. resilience, interviews with Joni Mitchell & Ben Loory, Siddhartha Deb on Don DeLillo’s three 1980s novels, and more
In honor of Pride Month, this week’s playlist is 30 songs performed by LGBTQ+ artists.
A Pride Playlist (30 songs, 1 hours and 44 minutes)
Largehearted Likes:
Bananarama’s Sara Dallin On “Cruel Summer”: ‘America Really Took The Song To Their Hearts’
Forgetting my phone
This week I went to work and left my phone at home. My commute reading was uninterrupted and I was more focused all day at the bookstore. I should do this more often…
Largehearted Links
Magnetic Fields will play a 69 Love Songs tour for the album’s 25th anniversary next year
Daphne Kalotay discusses "Relativity" from her collection The Archivists with
Hollywood, Please Stop Ruining Shows and Movies With Terrible Needle Drops
2023 has been a year saddled with head-thumpingly obvious needle drops.
Aquarium Drunkard interviewed singer-songwriter David John Morris
Tom Rachman on theperils of book promotion in the digital age
While the internet is the most powerful marketing tool that writers have ever had, the internet is devastating to an art that requires close concentration.
An interview with Ben Loory at
An excerpt from Natalie Beach’s brilliant memoir-in-essays at
Last Week’s LHB Feature Posts
Alexis De Veaux’s playlist for her book JesusDevil
Boo Trundle’s playlist for her novel The Daughter Ship
CJ Leede’s playlist for her novel Maeve Fly
J. Ashley-Smith’s playlist for his story collection The Measure of Sorrow
Katy Simpson Smith’s playlist for her novel The Weeds
Mat Osman’s playlist for his novel The Ghost Theatre
Stacy Jane Grover’s laylist for her essay collection Tar Hollow Trans