“Music lends itself very naturally to the sea. Sound, is after all, the sense of the sea, used by creatures such as the sperm whale to navigate its depths.”
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“My debut novel Kill for Love is a darkly comic thriller narrated by a Los Angeles sorority sister named Tiffany. The songs I listened to while drafting the book helped me inhabit her strange world.”
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“This playlist is based on music that accompanied the writing of the novel, period pieces from specific chapters in the novel, and unfolds some of my intentions for it.”
“When you live a tremendous shock, and try to heal from it, over the course of a couple of years—as I did when I discovered my wife of fifteen years had been having an affair with a man she met on the beach in Morocco—music mirrors all the shifting moods experienced.”
“I wanted the playlist to reflect an exposure to some of the parts of drag history that don’t get as much attention, as well as personal anecdotes and a fair amount of glamour, drama, and booty shaking.”
“Only after completing my story collection did I realize how much music, both in English and Arabic, had influenced each of the ten stories.”
“…Ai, the daughter of Cambodian refugees, is acutely aware of her place as “the other.” As she hums a tune from The Sound of Music, she is struck by the parallels between the story of the von Trapps and her family’s narrow escape from the Khmer Rouge.”
“Cat Power’s Chan Marshall, one of my favorite artists, makes magic with words and melodies but most of all with the angle and velocity of her voice.”