“Babes in Toyland’s music is complex in a way that it is almost impossible to describe.”
Category: Author Playlists
“Some of this playlist’s tunes are absolutely from past lives and they fucking rule, the tunes that is, not the lives, so stop listening to me and listen to this!”
“When I write, I am always thinking cinematically in that there must be a soundtrack, music to accompany the visuals in my head and on the page.”
“To introduce music into a novel is to introduce a part of our experience…”
“Essentially, I am a romantic and I adore a good, painful love song. Many of these selections tear at my gut in only the way love can.”
“…here is a playlist that populates and re-stakes a claim of females forgotten, unknown, and those reigning where it matters most.”
“For a novel teeming with noise, I’ve tried to create a soundtrack that reflects the texture and tone of its places, a soundscape for a very complicated world.”
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, Amy Bloom, Aimee Bender, Roxane Gay, and many others. Jinwoo Chong’s novel Flux is a propulsive literary […]
“I wrote Dioramas in order to get at something that lay beyond words and for which I had no language.”
“If I were in a club today with some of the historical women I write about in my book, people who would have no idea what a synthesizer is let alone the hipster cocktails I would serve them, here are the tunes each woman would choose from a list of female-forward pop songs from the last decade or so.”