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“I found myself gravitating towards pieces that were tense, atmospheric, inspiring, fitting with the mood of scientific discovery and the Gothic setting of the novel…”
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“While my book Arrangements in Blue is infused by the music of Joni Mitchell, and specifically her album Blue, many other songs feature. I suppose this is because I am highly susceptible to dramatising my life – set dressing and soundtracking the big and small moments of it.”
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“These songs ask that you break with what you thought you knew about what a girl is, what the world is, what art is. In short, please only listen to this playlist with the volume turned all the way up, alone, naked, dancing like it hurts.”
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“The songs in this playlist are ones that I think really embody Southern Gothic art, or ones that I listened to while I was writing or editing the poems, or songs that inspired me to be a better writer.”
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“Music influences my daily life, and songs and lyrics work their way into my writing in ways I don’t always plan. Some of those surprises follow in this track list for the eleven short stories in the collection.”