“Kit is now a stay-at-home mom living in a Dallas suburb, all musical aspirations far in her rearview mirror. Still, she listens to music constantly, and her choices have become freighted with longing and nostalgia.”
“There is so much rich atmosphere in the novel that I think this playlist could be a hundred songs long.”
“In every story of Perfect Little Angels, we meet our protagonists on life-changing days. Moments that the brain’s archives cannot expunge. Intuitively, we understand the link between memory and music.”
“Music runs like a minor background theme in My Roman History, emerging and receding with the passage of time.”
“Music has increasingly become a huge part of my practice—and in this book’s case, it felt like I had an audio moodboard well before the visual one.”
“In a collection called Kinds of Grace I of course had to include a song that examines the idea of grace under fire.”
“So much of the book is about longing for intimacy and, while I hope I did a sufficient job articulating that sense of yearning, music can be so powerful and offer another dimension that writing can’t always do on its own.”
“Mood music can fill you with yearning, which is a great state of mind to write from.”
“My novel is a love letter to the Indian immigrant community in Edison, New Jersey (where I grew up) but it’s also an ode to Hindi movies (what the world has come to know as ‘Bollywood’).”
“Log Off is a pearl necklace of essays that will, hopefully give you the strength to do as the title urges. Its subtitle, Why Posting and Politics (Almost) Never Mix, gets at the reasons I wrote the book.”