“In a Land without Dogs The Cats Learn to Bark is a novel whose characters are, in many ways, guided by music. By the music of revolution, the music of change, the music of chance, the music that is expansiveness, possibility and self-expression.”
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“These songs inspired me to push on through dark circumstances; to believe in the creative power of sound to transform that darkness into light, and at my childhood journey’s end, to arrive at the belief that God has to be music.”
“I listen to music constantly, even while writing. The songs become part of the weather; they help set the tone for the work.”
“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.”
“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.”
“I can’t write without creating a soundtrack to my work.”
“So many women singing about toxic heteronormative relationships becomes the music we dance to and sing along with in our cars or kitchens.”
“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.”
“Babes in Toyland’s music is complex in a way that it is almost impossible to describe.”
“Some of this playlist’s tunes are absolutely from past lives and they fucking rule, the tunes that is, not the lives, so stop listening to me and listen to this!”