“I don’t often listen to music while I write but music informs all the characters and floods through the feeling and mind of the book.”
“My new novel, Underjungle, is a tale of love, loss, family, and war—set entirely underwater. So War and Peace, but three-thousand feet deeper. And considerably shorter.”
“Now that I’ve lived here for 6 years I have so much context, and sometimes I still think Brooklyn is an unrequited love song.”
“…I am struck once again by how music so beautifully, and evocatively, captures the emotions of fiction—and life.”
“…I only asked myself one question when picking out what kind of music to blare while I scribbled it: What would the Butthole Surfers do?”
“Fight Songs is not so much about sports as it is about the South, using the region’s mania for college sports as its lens. It’s not so much about the South, though, as it is about community: how and where we find it or make it or pretend that we have, what it gives and what it can cost.”
“Peach Pit is a collection of 16 stories centred around morally grey women and the stories are so varied, so with this playlist we wanted to try and create an immersive experience by finding songs that relate to each of the stories!”
“The novel starts just before Memorial Day in 2017 with realtor Lisa Kensington planting American flags in every yard in her territory—the Prestige Haven neighborhood in the fictional suburban coastal town of Wellington Beach, California.”
“These songs pay reverence to romance as if it is a god itself…”
“The stories in my debut collection So Much Heart were written while highly caffeinated and with music blaring.”