“…let me use music to retell the same story using a different medium. An exercise in translation.”
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“Hands down my favourite part of releasing a new book—apart from the joy of writing the book itself—is compiling the playlist that best evokes that book’s vibe. It completes it, somehow, brings it more fully into the world, by connecting it to that broader range of sounds and colours and feelings.”
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“I think this playlist speaks to the varied ways in which JesusDevil, The Parables mirrors how black spiritual practices are affirmed in an anti-black culture.”
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“Music has always been a massive part of my life. Pair that with the fact that I wrote Maeve Fly to be largely in conversation with, and celebration of, American Psycho (“You like Huey Lewis and the News?”), and you’ve got a main character as music obsessed as I myself am.”
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“I don’t really think a novel should be reducible to just its milieu.”
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