LargeHeartedBoy — The Paris Review interviewed poet Claudia Rankine. Aimee Mann played a Tiny Desk Concert. Tor.com shared an excerpt from Frank M. Robinson's memoir Not So Good a Gay Man. Stream a new song by Hundred Waters. Bill Clinton is collaborating... more info

Chicago Tribune — Give Aimee Mann credit for her honesty. Before playing a single note Saturday at a sold-out Park West, the singer-songwriter announced virtually everything she would perform was going to be depressing. Yet like the multiple meanings layered in her cl... more info

Chicago Tribune — Aimee Mann has been making records since the '80s, and you'd think that by now she'd done it all. But her latest, "Mental Illness" (SuperEgo Records), breaks new ground. "I never had made a stripped-down acoustic record, which is one of the reasons t... more info

Chorus.fm — Aimee Mann is on the latest episode of Song Exploder. more info

Stereogum — Aimee Mann has been one of our greatest songwriters for decades, and so she's a natural for Song Exploder , the podcasts where musicians pick apart their own tracks and tell us how they wrote them. Last month, Mann returned with Mental Illness , an... more info

Popdose — This frown is orientated just right. more info

Popdose — But I am the stuff of happy endings / Though mostly bluff, belief suspending / But close enough for just pretending / To care? What’s THAT supposed to mean? The new Aimee Mann album, Mental Illness, is winning all sorts of critical acclaim. Thatâ€... more info

KEXP Seattle — This week sees the return of L.A.-based artist Aimee Mann. KEXP Music Director Don Yates calls her ninth solo album, “a consistently strong set of intimate, smartly crafted folk-pop, combining a dark, acoustic-oriented sound with her plaintive voca... more info

Stereogum — Paul F. Tompkins and Aimee Mann are old friends -- they're both regulars at the LA music-and-comedy club Largo, he's performed at her Christmas shows over the years, they've done podcasts together, and he had a small role in Magnolia, the Paul Thomas... more info

Chicago Tribune — Aimee Mann has been typecast as a singer who always sees the dark lining in the silver cloud, and so she doubles down on that reputation by titling her latest album "Mental Illness" (Superego). Mann's also got a healthy sense of humor about life and ... more info