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Stacy Szymaszek’s Playlist for Her Poetry Collection “Famous Hermits”

“During the writing of this book, I seemed to gravitate to songs with lyrics that are at least as interesting as poems or are powerfully melody driven. I listened to Lucinda Williams often when I lived in Tucson.”

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Shorties (An Excerpt from Daphne Kalotay’s New Story Collection, An Interview with Black Pumas’ Adrian Quesada, and more)

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Selena Chambers’s Playlist for Her Book “Babes in Toyland’s Fontanelle”

“Babes in Toyland’s music is complex in a way that it is almost impossible to describe.”

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Shorties (Gary Indiana Interviewed, New Music from Cola, and more)

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Casey Plett’s Playlist for Her Story Collection “A Safe Girl to Love”

“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!”

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Shorties (Teju Cole’s New Novel, Recommended Memoirs by Musicians, and more)

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Jennifer Banash’s Playlist for Her Novel “The Rise and Fall of Ava Arcana”

“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.”

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Shorties (Cecile Pin’s Recommended Novels Narrated by Ghosts, Remembering Ryuichi Sakamoto, and more)

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April’s Best eBook Deals

A list of the month’s best eBook deals.

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Belén Gopegui’s Playlist for Her Novel “Stay This Day and Night With Me”

“To introduce music into a novel is to introduce a part of our experience…”