Recs if you like The Midnight Special: The Secret Prison History of American Music...

A mash-up of two of the most wonderful things in life books and music! 😌 A collection of non-fiction from biographies, genre histories, and social and pop histories. These are going to be unfortunately skewed toward my taste and those artists who I have knowledge of and/or admire. So recommend me artists you know!! (As long as they aren’t “problematic” ie, Michael Jackson, Jerry Lee Lewis, Kid Rock, Ted Nugent, etc.)

To stick it to Bret Stephens for his dumb op-ed in the NYT, here is a list of all the 77th Annual National Book Award Long List Honorees.

NBA Honoree Categories: Fiction Nonfiction Poetry Translated Literature Young People's Literature

If they release any others, I'll update this list!

Books requested to be added to PB: Still House (poetry)

The ten contenders for the National Book Award for the categories of Translated Literature, Nonfiction, Young People's Literature and Fiction.