“In putting together my playlist, I wanted to give a sample of some of my favorite ghostly music.”
“My new novel, Incarnate, is story about a Faustian bargain made by a young woman who wants to be a breakout success on social media.”
“Here are songs for haunted houses and ruined gardens and endless afternoons.”
“So much of the process of writing this book occurred in silence, and yet, I always longed to evoke a sense of the soundscape of the asylum.”
“The frontier is an imaginary place and always has been, a fact that allowed what I listened to while writing Observer to be as wide-ranging as the people in the American West.”
“I’m very feeling-centered in my work; you could call me a largehearted girl. My poems are often an exploration, a translation even, of internal worlds. Music is one of the best ways to enter an internal world, to bask in it, sit in it like a mud bath—whether that’s in the stage of writing, editing, or reading.”
“…this playlist is a direct reflection of what I was forced to listen to during some of the most impressionable years of my life.”
“…the book has lightness, too, because darkness and misery can be funny if you look for it, and because childhood is strange and magical and incomprehensible.”
“Music, like writing, has helped me come to terms with the fact that pathology is what I make of it.”
“You’ll find the playlist touches grief but doesn’t stay there…”