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“I was jilted and I was stoned and I listened over and over to Bob Dylan. It was my drug of choice. The music felt like the simultaneous anticipation and afterglow of sex, coursing through me like the continuous caudal I had been promised in childbirth, like my mother’s blessing.”
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“Usually when I write, I listen to songs by very sad people mumbling, and while I love that genre and this playlist includes some songs like that, I knew this novel needed broader kinds of sound.”
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“My new novel has been called a startling fable of the entwined perils of capitalism, body politics, and the stigmas women face for appetites of every kind. Inspired by these themes, here is my curated playlist filled with food, sex, and lots of longing.”
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“When I wasn’t writing, I spent a lot of time in the park near where I lived, listening to an elaborate playlist I had crafted for the book that reflected, for me, the emotional beats of the story. It felt like a way to inhabit the world of my novel, even when I wasn’t in it.”
“Most of my work is about obsession. If I had to identify the prevailing mood and motivation of the characters in Mon Dieu, Love, it is this sort of simmering, low-grade longing for something they’ve never experienced – a fantasy of romantic relationships that are stable and wild, risky and cozy, and secure and challenging all at once.”
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