Best album to write to: Sunn 0))) - Life Metal
Best album to travel to: Weyes Blood - Titanic Rising
Best album to chill to: Kishi Bashi - Omoiyari
Overall best album: Yann TIersen - All
Musicians doing interesting things: Patrick Burnell, Boris, Night Dreamer, Liturgy, Sharon Van Etten, Julia Jacklin, Radiohead, Emily Jane White, Sam Valdez, The Twilight Sad, Big Brave, Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, Nadia Reid
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Magazines that are keeping it real: Apogee, Beestung Magazine, Cotton Xenomorph, Them, Dream Pop Press, Guernica, The Poetry Question, Anomalous Press, Long Reads, The Outline, Nat.Brut, BBC
Awesome radio show/podcast/online series: NPR’s Life Kit, Trans Monogamist
Most welcoming reading series: Brooklyn Poets Yawp (NYC), BTW Reading Series (NYC), Pigeon Pages (NYC), Tire Fire (Philadelphia), Community Drafts (Philadelphia)
Best lit/art resources: Entropy, The Rumpus, Volume 1 Brooklyn, Poets & Writers, NPR, Hyperallergic
Presses that are slaying: The Operating System, Clash Books, Vegetarian Alcoholic Press, Apep Publications, Inside the Castle, The Accomplices, Copper Canyon Press, Alice James Books
Publishers/editors/inspirational people to thank: Elae (Lynne Desilva-Johnson), Claire Rudy Foster, Meredith Talusan, Rachel Syme, Ashley C. Ford, Samantha Irby, Jeffrey Marsh
Most inclusive lit & innovative art organizations: Brooklyn Poets (NYC), GAMBA (NYC), Unruly Collective (NYC), The Convent (Philadelphia), The Operating System & Liminal Lab (NYC & elsewhere)
Bookstores to check out: A Novel Idea (Philadelphia), WORD Bookstore (Brooklyn, NYC & Jersey City, NJ), Brickbat Books (Philadelphia), Alabaster Books (NYC)
Twitters/people with the most sass: Spark Notes, Jason Heller
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TV show that fucked me up: Dark, Russian Doll, Mindhunter, Chernobyl
Best films that caught my breath: The Farewell, Little Women, Midsommar, American Son
Books that I loved: Darkly by Leila Taylor, Thicket by Melanie Janisse Barlow, Hall of Waters by Berry Grass, Desert Fox by the Sea by Christine Sloan Stoddard, The Elvis Machine by Kim Vodicka, When Brooklyn Was Queer by Hugh Ryan
Art exhibits that fascinated me: Dawoud Bey’s Night Coming Tenderly, Black at Art Institute Chicago; Manet and Modern Beauty at Getty Center (LA); Hilma af Klint: Paintings for the Future at Guggenheim (NYC), Pope.L’s Choir at Whitney (NYC); The Collector’s Eye at North Carolina Museum of Art, Zanele Muholi’s Somnyama Ngonyama at Seattle Art Museum
Artists doing amazing things: Zanele Muholi, Dylan Garrett Smith, Bill Ross, Jon Michael Frank, Carisa Swenson, Jessi Hardesty
Here is 2016′s list. Here is 2017′s list. Here is 2018’s list.