“…here is a playlist that populates and re-stakes a claim of females forgotten, unknown, and those reigning where it matters most.”
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“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.”
“I think of these songs as calling to me and my stories in turn responding in a conversation across space, time, and borders.”
“I imagine that after Ed’s regrettable ska/punk phase, he got into a bit of a punk/hardcore phase. This seems like the natural progression to me for rock music kids in the ’90s.”
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“I sometimes wonder if my novel makes the most sense when read aloud. The tension between the human and the natural when spoken is so much more apparent than on the page.”