“Because the composition of this book spans over 15 years, my choices are less about remembering what song shaped the writing than thinking about what musical analogue the story evokes.”
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“These are the songs I would listen to during the crucial sanity walk between drafting sessions to try to invoke the right mood.”
“I wrote this book about a period of upheaval – a major breakup, two big moves, a time-honoured mid-twenties existential scramble – and through it all, I buoyed and understood myself through music.”
“…music arranges the landscape into which you put your writing.”
“Off the page, when I was living this story, music got me through the hardest moments and helped me celebrate the happiest.”
“White Flight deconstructs masculinity from within, and my aim is for it to be a lesson to the world about why we—and, although I do now hold a PhD, I include myself in this group—are the way we are.”
“These are a few songs we think evoke the timelessness of made-up places and the joy of being part of an outdoor adventure.”
“Something about having a second child really messed with my relationship to music. I’m a lot more exhausted than I was when we had just one, and whatever spare mental energy I have has gone toward reading and writing, not listening.”
“I generally don’t write to a soundtrack. I rely on rhythm in my prose, and playing music interferes with that internal metronome.”
“Much like considering the food and clothes of the time, I find that thinking about the musical world that shaped my characters is a really useful texture to help ground me in the worldbuilding of the story.”