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Daniel Wallace’s Playlist for His Memoir “This Isn’t Going to End Well”

“Music is a language shared and spoken sometimes between just two people. A song can function as a message, a letter, a proposal, a promise, a goodbye. Back in the day mixed tapes served a vital role by creating an entire autobiography.”

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Allegra Hyde’s Playlist for Her Story Collection “The Last Catastrophe”

“The fifteen stories in The Last Catastrophe are filled with many things—ghost moose, spaceships, vegan zombies, unicorn horns, cream soda, RVs, ferrets, enormous jars of mayonnaise—but they are also filled with music.”

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Jennifer Maritza McCauley’s Playlist for Her Story Collection “When Trying to Return Home”

“I can’t write without creating a soundtrack to my work.”

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Christine Hume’s Playlist for Her Book “Everything I Never Wanted to Know”

“So many women singing about toxic heteronormative relationships becomes the music we dance to and sing along with in our cars or kitchens.”

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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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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.”