“In the days after I came out, I would sit in my small house, cut off from everything, with my kids, a toddler and an infant, with long nights ahead. Music brought me a lot of deep healing as I learned how to be okay.”
“In the days after I came out, I would sit in my small house, cut off from everything, with my kids, a toddler and an infant, with long nights ahead. Music brought me a lot of deep healing as I learned how to be okay.”
“In my new novel, Beings, a couple driving home from their honeymoon in 1961 encounters a spaceship that irrevocably changes their lives.”
“The length and feel of the playlist is intentional as I like to drift off into it in a way that lets me zero in on the writing, while forgetting about where I am in a room.”
“Thinking about which song might comfort a sleep-deprived new mother in the year 2008, or what a woman who’d been pretending a breakup never happened would blast when she was alone at night, or even who’d listen to indie rock and who’d listen to the radio, was such an instructive exercise that I wish I’d done it sooner.”
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