Largehearted Boy
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Rebecca Birrell’s Book Notes music playlist for her novel Venus, Vanishing
"These are mostly crossover songs that enriched the novel, but also helped me feel less insane about my own circumstances so I could muster the energy and wherewithal to write. "
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Emma Smith-Stevens’s Book Notes music playlist for her story collection Greyhounds
"...fiction is either false or true. It depends on the depth of imagination and empathy; style, rhythm, silence; honesty and depth of feeling and meticulousness; and an irrepressible desire to make sentences so tight they ping."
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Kaaron Warren’s Book Notes music playlist for her novella Going to Summertime
"Tamara loves the maudlin. Any song about death is all right by her."
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Wendy Wimmer’s Book Notes music playlist for her novel The Doomscroller’s Companion
"Beyond my premise of zombie movies training us to react to a zombie-like scenario, my other working inspiration for the novel was that when the apocalypse happens, it will mostly be filtered through and to some extent, be felt through social media."
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Devon Halliday’s Book Notes music playlist for her novel To Stay, To Stay, To Stay
"In the spirit of those long-ago music videos—alas, lost to history—I present an emotional road map of my novel, To Stay, To Stay, To Stay. If you listen to this playlist all the way through, the music video in your mind should recreate the plot of the novel with 99% accuracy……
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The Book Notes music playlist for the anthology The Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Writing the Lyric Essay
In the Book Notes series, authors create and discuss a music playlist that relates in some way to their recently published book. Previous contributors include Jesmyn Ward, Lauren Groff, Bret Easton Ellis, Celeste Ng, T.C. Boyle, Dana Spiotta, Hanif Abdurraqib, Andrew Sean Greer,…
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Seth Fleisher’s Book Notes music playlist for his novel The Farther Shore
"I rarely listen to music when I write. It distracts me from the rhythm and musicality I strive to build into prose. Plus, I have an internal playlist that rarely stops, even when I try my best to quiet it."
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Matt Kish’s Book Notes music playlist for his book Moby-Dick in Pictures
"Working in solitude, alone in a tiny closet, would have been maddening without music."
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Linda Kass’s Book Notes music playlist for her novel World News from Waverley High
"World News from Waverley High is set against the backdrop of national unrest and some of the most vital music ever created."
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James Elkins’s Book Notes music playlist for his novel Stories, Like Illnesses
"I love the difference between authors who have favorite songs on deep background, giving them the feeling of their life, and authors who play particular songs in their head while they write, or the difference between authors who cite songs in their writing, and authors who hide…
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Bradley Sides’s Book Notes music playlist for his novella The Volcano Keeper
"Without music, this book wouldn’t exist. I’d just have a volcano, but with no place to put it."