Today is 's 21st birthday. Thank you to everyone who has contributed to the site's success. Writers, musicians, booksellers, friends, readers, and publishers have all been essential parts of the books + music equation (that equals love)
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David Gutowski
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I read and write and listen to music. LHB is my website. Words at , , ,... davidgutowski.com largeheartedboy.substack.com
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"I’m not sure you can write a book about religion and make a playlist for that book and not have at least one Leonard Cohen song."
shared a playlist for his novel The 12th Commandment at largeheartedboy.com/blog/archive/2
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Today's book & music news & links include an interview with about their brilliant novel Sterling Karat Gold, an interview with Belle & Sebastian's Stuart Murdoch, plus much more largeheartedboy.com/blog/archive/2
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HI. i have started making tMG live! compilations using recordings pulled from the live music archive. the first is likely the one most near and dear to my heart, a celebration of . link to free download in the reply. i had so much fun with this, i hope you love it
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"These songs stand or swim behind the poems in We Are Mermaids in an unusually direct way..."
@accommodatingly shared a playlist for her poetry collection We Are Mermaids at @largeheartedboy largeheartedboy.com/blog/archive/2 @GraywolfPress
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This was one of my favorite ways to celebrate the launch of Tell Me One Thing - today!! 🖤
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"Music and art have always influenced my writing."
@KerriLeeJC shared a playlist for her debut novel Tell Me One Thing at @largeheartedboy largeheartedboy.com/blog/archive/2 @RegalHouse1
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Preparing for this night's hometown book launch by listening to the soundtrack for Tell Me One Thing that invited me to make! Come to Sidetrack Bookshop in Royal Oak, MI, at 7pm! 🖤 #booklaunch
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This was one of my favorite ways to celebrate the launch of Tell Me One Thing - today!! 
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Today's book & music news & links include 's interview with Martin Riker, on jazz books, plus much more largeheartedboy.com/blog/archive/2
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"These songs stand or swim behind the poems in We Are Mermaids in an unusually direct way..."
shared a playlist for her poetry collection We Are Mermaids at largeheartedboy.com/blog/archive/2
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"One of the mysteries of death metal is that it works with melody."
shared a playlist for their book Death Metal at largeheartedboy.com/blog/archive/2
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The list of February's best ebook deals at include titles by Kathy Acker, Molly Prentice, , Edna O'Brien, , Tayari Jones, & largeheartedboy.com/blog/archive/2
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Today's book & music news & links include 's interview with Martin Riker, on jazz books, plus much more largeheartedboy.com/blog/archive/2
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Today's book & music news & links include 's interview with Wendell Steavenson, new music from , plus much more largeheartedboy.com/blog/archive/2
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I did a playlist for Head Cleaner at . Listen to songs the characters were listening to!
Can ringtones ruin relationships?
"In order to settle grudges, the 3 main characters in my new novel are representative of Gen X, Gen Y and Gen Z..."
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"In order to settle some grudges...the three main characters in my new novel Head Cleaner are, for the most part, representative of Gen X, Gen Y and Gen Z"
shared a playlist for his novel Head Cleaner at largeheartedboy.com/blog/archive/2
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Today's book & music news & links include 's interview with Wendell Steavenson, new music from , plus much more largeheartedboy.com/blog/archive/2
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Today's book & music news & links include an interview with about her debut novel, new music fro , plus much more largeheartedboy.com/blog/archive/2
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Today's book & music news & links include an interview with about her debut novel, new music fro , plus much more largeheartedboy.com/blog/archive/2
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"This novel was all about trying to imagine a distant future that looks, at least in some ways, like our distant past."
shared a playlist for their novel The Terraformers at largeheartedboy.com/blog/archive/2
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Today's book & music news & links include an interview with about her debut novel, an interview with composer , plus much more largeheartedboy.com/blog/archive/2
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"Music and art have always influenced my writing."
shared a playlist for her debut novel Tell Me One Thing at largeheartedboy.com/blog/archive/2
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Today's book & music news & links include an interview with about her debut novel, an interview with composer , plus much more largeheartedboy.com/blog/archive/2
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Today's book & music news & links include an interview with Hua Hsu, a remembrance of Tom Verlaine, plus much more largeheartedboy.com/blog/archive/2
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One of my fave websites turns 21 tomorrow.
blog.largeheartedboy.com
Largehearted Boy - David Gutowski - compiles yearly best book lists, publishes amazing playlists by authors, & gives out so many great book & music suggestions. Happy 21st & Thank you David! ^DR
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Today's @largeheartedboy book & music news & links include an interview with Hua Hsu, a remembrance of Tom Verlaine, plus much more largeheartedboy.com/blog/archive/2
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"I was a floundering musician before I became a floundering writer."
David Nutt shared a playlist for his story collection Summertime in the Emergency Room at largeheartedboy.com/blog/archive/2
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Celebrate 's 21st birthday tomorrow with this playlist of 21 songs for 21 years in my newsletter
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Today's book & music news & links include an interview with Hua Hsu, a remembrance of Tom Verlaine, plus much more largeheartedboy.com/blog/archive/2
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"Many of the characters in Vintage Contemporaries really care about music, in the way that they also really care about books, theater, and movies."
shared a playlist for his novel Vintage Contemporaries at largeheartedboy.com/blog/archive/2
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ICYMI: "Ink" by Angela Woodward released yesterday! Check out the playlist she created for her novel on the Largehearted Boy Literature & Music blog! Then go buy the book! buff.ly/3wsmQpF
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Read tributes to Tom Verlaine from Blondie, Steve Albini, Lloyd Cole, more brooklynvegan.com/read-tributes-
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Tom Verlaine, whose band Television was one of the most influential to emerge from the New York punk rock scene centered on the nightclub CBGB, died on Saturday in Manhattan. He was 73.
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Today's book & music news & links include an excerpt from 's memoir, a list of the best covers of Lucinda Williams songs, plus much more largeheartedboy.com/blog/archive/2
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"One of the themes of Mr. Breakfast is who we (do or don’t) end up with in our lives and why."
shared a playlist for his novel Mr. Breakfast at largeheartedboy.com/blog/archive/2
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A playlist for Sounds Wild and Broken, via
heard through the deep time of music evolution...
Gershwin played by as ash rains down from a burning mountain...
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I made a playlist for THE RED-HEADED PILGRIM over at including bangers from Ravi Shankar, Jim Morrison, and Mazzy Star. Hope you dig it 📚🎶🔥
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Today's book & music news & links include an excerpt from 's memoir, a list of the best covers of Lucinda Williams songs, plus much more largeheartedboy.com/blog/archive/2
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Today's book & music news & links include a story from 's new collection, 's interview with 's James McNew, plus much more largeheartedboy.com/blog/archive/2
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"What follows is a soundtrack for my book, The Red-Headed Pilgrim. It’s a soundtrack for my life too and all the made-up spaces in between."
shared a playlist for his novel The Red-Headed Pilgrim at largeheartedboy.com/blog/archive/2
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Today's book & music news & links include a story from 's new collection, 's interview with 's James McNew, plus much more largeheartedboy.com/blog/archive/2
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Today's book & music news & links include a profile of Svetlana Alexievich, an interview with , plus much more largeheartedboy.com/blog/archive/2
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