“Why is it so fucking true that the minute you make a playlist for an idea, it becomes a book? I was in denial for a long time that I was writing a novel, the novel that would become Housemates, but then I added a song and then a second and then a third to a playlist that I was calling at the time just “Bernie and Leah,” the names of my main characters, and the novel was, irrefutably, real.”
