“Music influences my daily life, and songs and lyrics work their way into my writing in ways I don’t always plan. Some of those surprises follow in this track list for the eleven short stories in the collection.”
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“In writing the fourteen stories of this collection, I hadn’t started out with music in mind; however, the songs kept showing up.”
“So much of the novel is a dance with queer vulnerability, outsized emotions, and the ways we shape ourselves around cultural taboos. Sometimes music is the only way to pierce through it all to find the quiet clarity in the center.”
“The music that informs Make It Stop is a mix of loud, edgy music from the late ’70s to the present day.”
“Music has always been a companion, and often an inspiration. As I was writing Because I Loved You, I discovered that most of the characters had their own soundtrack.”
“This playlist functions as a score for the movie version of The Last Beekeeper that I fantasize about.”
“…I feel like The Linda Linda’s ‘Racist, Sexist Boy’ IS the soundtrack of my memoir.”
“I can’t listen to music when I write, but I do listen to it a lot when I’m thinking of what to write or thinking about what I just wrote (or thinking generally).”
“Music has always been essential to my creative process. It’s my first love. When I was ten years old, I wrote my first ‘song’ and I made ‘albums’ on cassette tapes. Those words are in quotations because I didn’t understand much about being a musician; all I knew was that I wanted to be Prince and write, produce, arrange, and do the artwork for all my creations. I carry that spirit with me more than 30 years later.”
“In The Merry Dredgers, song and music courses through the narrative like arteries carrying nutrient-rich blood throughout the body.”