• Lit Disco’s Best Picks of the Worst Year

    Tod, Rider, and Julia Take on the Year 2020

    Julia, Rider, and Tod look back on their favorite books (and music, and TV…) from a year during which it felt impossible to consume anything.

    Julia’s picks:

    Your House Will Pay by Steph Cha

    Making Comics by Linda Barry

    Jon Batiste on the Soul soundtrack

    Schitt’s Creek and The Good Place

    Tod’s picks:

    Weather by Jenny Offill

    The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones

    “Overseas” by Jason Isbell

    Bosch and The Boys

    Rider’s picks:

    The Overstory by Richard Powers

    “Elegy” by Aracelis Girmay

    “Transatlantic Flight” by Leif Vollebekk

    Rick and Morty and PEN15

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