“I’ve found that music is one sure way for me to float across realities, to believe what my characters believe, and these are some songs that plunged me right into the heart of the novel’s atmosphere.”
Author: largeheartedboy
“My fifth novel, Man Overboard!, is a dark comedy—kind of a beach read about a guy who has no beach.”
“I try to craft everything I write for the ear as well as the eye, and the music playing while I edit shapes the rhythm of the text.”
“If I’m honest, I probably started writing around the same time I accepted that I couldn’t sing and would never be more than a noodler on the guitar.”
“When I lived in Austin, Texas, two things shaped the hours beyond my writing desk: books and music.”
“Here are thirteen tracks, set to Sourland’s ebbs and flows of love, loss, redemption, and weed.”
“The songs I’ve chosen are those which I’ve imagined appearing on a fantasy soundtrack for an imagine film about Carlos Castaneda, songs that evoke various people and places that appear in the book.”
“When I was writing The Endling, music was such a significant part of the process. I used it to get a sense of the culture I was depicting, to describe the state of particular characters, and more than anything else, to locate the atmosphere and emotion in a scene. It might come as no surprise that this playlist includes very few men.”
“Because the book is about ancestors, I needed music that had a certain ritual vibe to it.”
“I build the playlist to set mood, to create a headspace where my characters can swim and dance and fight and do all the things complex characters do.”