Dystopia for Sale – Literary Hub
http://lithub.com/dystopia-for-sale-how-a-commercialized-genre-lost-its-teeth/
For Literary Hub, I wrote about the evolution of dystopian fiction and what it can, and can’t do for us.
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2017 Reading List
Akhil Reed Amar – America’s Constitution: A Biography
Matthew Spalding – The Heritage Guide to the Constitution: Fully Revised Second Edition
Christopher Moore – Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ’s Childhood Pal
Roxane Gay – Bad Feminist
Rebecca Solnit – Men Explain Things to Me
Jonathan Eig – The Birth of the Pill: How Four Crusaders Reinvented Sex and Launched a Revolution
Virginia Woolf – A Room of One’s Own
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie – We Should All Be Feminists
Simone de Beauvoir – The Second Sex
Charles J. Shields – And So It Goes: Kurt Vonnegut: A Life
George Orwell – Homage to Catalonia
John Hooper – The New Spaniards
Carlos Ruiz Zafón – The Shadow of the Wind
Giles Tremlett – Ghosts Of Spain: Travels Through Spain And Its Silent Past
Margaret Atwood – The Handmaid’s Tale
Carson McCullers – The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
George Saunders – Lincoln in the Bardo
A.O. Scott – Better Living Through Criticism: How to Think About Art, Pleasure, Beauty, and Truth
George Saunders – Tenth of December
Sean L. Maloney – The Modern Lovers (The 331/3 Series)
Ta-Nehisi Coates – Between the World and Me
Neil Landau w/ Matthew Frederick – 101 Things I Learned in Film School
Haruki Murakami – What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
Marilynne Robinson – Gilead
Rob Sheffield – Dreaming the Beatles: A Love Story of One Band and the Whole World
John Richardson – A Life of Picasso, Vol. 1: The Early Years, 1881-1906
Paul Beatty – The Sellout
Michel Houellebecq – Submission
Emily St. John Mandel – Station Eleven
Ottessa Moshfegh – Homesick for Another World
Francine Prose – Mister Monkey
Charles Yu – How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe
Alexander Weinstein – Children of the New World
Omar El Akkad – American War
Mohsin Hamid – Exit West
Eugene Lim – Dear Cyborgs
Weike Wang – Chemistry
Lidia Yuknavitch – The Book of Joan
Elan Mastai – All our Wrong Todays
Nathan Hill – The Nix
Ernest Cline – Ready Player One
Blake Crouch – Dark Matter
Matt Gallagher – Youngblood
Steve Erickson – Shadowbahn
Rainbow Rowell – Landline
Courtney Maum – Touch
Lionel Shriver – The Mandibles: A Family, 2029-2047
D.T. Max – Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace
Lizzy Goodman – Meet Me in the Bathroom: Rebirth and Rock and Roll in New York City 2001-2011
Richard Hell – I Dreamed I Was a Very Clean Tramp
David Foster Wallace – Infinite Jest
Alan Moore & David Lloyd – V for Vendetta
Haruki Murakami – The Strange Library
Arthur Rimbaud – A Season in Hell
Alex Gilvarry – Eastman Was Here
David Lynch – Catching the Big Fish
Richard Brautigan – In Watermelon Sugar
Lao Tzu – Tao Te Ching
Howard Zinn – A People’s History of the United States
Ray Padgett – Cover Me: The Stories Behind the Greatest Cover Songs of All Time
Art Spiegelman – Maus
Viet Thanh Nguyen – The Sympathizer
James H. Madison – Hoosiers: A New History of Indiana
Anthony DeCurtis – Lou Reed: A Life
Kim Zetter – Countdown to Zero Day: Stuxnet and the Launch of the World’s First Digital Weapon
Henepola Gunaratana – Mindfulness in Plain English
Thomas Pynchon – Gravity’s Rainbow
Kazuo Ishiguro – Never Let Me Go
Hastings of Malawi: “Nobody should miss this vinyl disaster”
Lump Records: Chile Indie Label with an Anthropological Purpose
Lucid: Mysterious and Grand Arabic Classical Music from Israel
HURT ‘EM: Indonesian Hardcore Metal With Punk Spirit
Nihiloxica: A Darker Take on Traditional Bugandan Drumming
Sweatshop Soundsystem: UK Rising Stars Team Up With Yazz Ahmed and Ash Walker
Alpine Those Myriads: Norwegian One-Man “Kaleidoscopic Music”
Alpine Those Myriads: Norwegian One-Man “Kaleidoscopic Music”
I feel like any Alpine Those Myriads song could explode at any moment. “Nocturnal Hysteria pt. 1,” my favorite track from the Norwegian one-man project, often does. Sometimes it’s a screeching saxophone. Other times it’s a droning electronic orchestra that could take down a church. Similar to Hans Zimmer and Benjamin Wallfisch’s score in the latest Blade Runner, eerie underlayers of noise crescendo into bombastic moments of bliss.
From Bandcamp:
“Avant-garde expeditions, nervy electro, psychedelic blizzards, tragedy & surreal humor and the odd dash of singable melodies are combined into what one may experience as kaleidoscopic music.”
From Website:
“[This] Norwegian band…is all about operating in odd and exotic realms, freeing their creativities from both external and internal expectations and dogmas, thus finding new avenues of artistic expression along the way. Gypus Chelofan (the band´s composer & leader) has since 2001 been pushing the boundaries of the band within many different line-ups. From 2017 he´s chosen to set sail completely alone to explore and develop the rich musical world that the band are known for in a more compact monster.”
Have You Ever Seen The Jane Fonda Aerobic VHS?: Finnish Garage Synth-Pop
Have You Ever Seen The Jane Fonda Aerobic VHS?: Finnish Garage Synth-Pop
Have you ever heard this great Finnish garage synth-pop band with the great band title? The Kouvola trio’s music does sound like a Jane Fonda Aerobic VHS: chipper, colorful, and best listened to while dancing in your house while wearing legwarmers. Sounding at first like an enduring tribute to ’80s daytime cheer, about halfway through, “Sheep” turns into loud and distorted sing-a-long as grand as Titus Andronicus. It’s exciting stuff, and it’s a reason to be on the lookout for this band more throughout 2018.
From SoundCloud:
“Sheep is the second single release from the upcoming album Jazzbelle 1984 / 1988 due to be released on January 19ht 2018 on VILD Recordings.”