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Any CD, song, book, magazine, or DVD I write about, either on this website or for other publication, may or may not be one of the many complimentary copies I receive each month.Zoe Whittall's Playlist for Her Novel "The Spectacular" In the Book Notes series, authors create and discuss a music playlist that relates in some way to their recently published book.Previous contributors include Jesmyn Ward, Lauren Groff, Bret Easton Ellis, Celeste Ng, T.C. Boyle, Dana Spiotta, Amy Bloom, Aimee Bender, Roxane Gay, and many others.Zoe Whittall's novel The Spectacular is one of the most powerful books on motherhood I have read, it definitely lives up to its title.Publishers Weekly wrote of the book:"Whittall is excellent at writing the small, intimate details and sharp dialogue, as well as the mostly propulsive plot, while making no bones about opinions on gender inequities. Whittall is a great storyteller, and her latest does not disappoint."In her own words, here is Zoe Whittall's Book Notes music playlist for her novel The Spectacular:To Bring You My Love – PJ HarveyBecause I’m a mixed-tape era kid, I have to think about the first sound you’ll hear on the mix. And the epic, crunchy guitar riff that builds with such a driving tension is a great way to start us off. This song is so sultry and sexy, and the novel can get quite dirty in hopefully the best way. It’s also the first album that comes to mind when it comes to defining the mid-'90s in both the indie rock and feminist scene of that time. It’s so raw in a way I think that Missy in the beginning of the book would appreciate.Range Life - PavementAfter the glow, the scene, the stage / The sad talk becomes slow – The first section of The Spectacular is in part about a girl on tour with her band, and this song really captures the debauchery of that time and in that last verse, tour life in the '90s. It’s also a bop.Three Days – Jane’s AddictionThis song is a real temporality of drugs song – three days was the morning/ three lovers in three ways. I’d say this goes well with the climax of Missy’s journey in her 20s.Our House - Crosby, Stills, Nash & YoungThis song is for the character of Carola. I’m instantly brought back to my own childhood when I hear this song. Graham Nash wrote it for Joni Mitchell. I think it’s a nice soundtrack for the hope Carola had for her life at the commune with Bryce before she starts to unravel.Keep on Rockin’ in the Free World - Neil YoungI saw Neil Young sing this with Pearl Jam in 1994, and it’s a song that resonates with Carola’s social world in the '70s and with Missy in the '90s, and it sort of embodies the attitudes of both eras, lyrically.Fageterian and Dyke - Team DreschTeam Dresch is my favourite band of all time and I could have chosen any song from their first two albums, but I chose this one for the line I Spent the Last Ten Days of My Life / Ripping Off the Smiths. I put this on the list for the moment Missy meets Andy for the first time in Las Vegas and they flirt and talk about being queer in the punk rock scene in the '90s.Gone for Good - The ShinsExcellent divorce song.No Children - The Mountain GoatsBest divorce song after a traumatic relationship of all time? The rage! Missy listens to this song on repeat in the last half of the book when Navid leaves her.Just One of the Guys - Jenny LewisThis one is for Missy at 38, surrounded by musicians at midlife, feeling like just another lady without a baby.Treacherous - Taylor SwiftThis song is an anthem for a doomed, badly timed love affair, like the one Andy and Missy can’t get right.All of the Lights - Kanye WestThere was a week or so leading up to a deadline while writing an early draft of the book where I could only write if I was listening to this song, and Runaway, and sometimes all of the My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy album, in headphones. There was something about the beats and intensity that made me able to focus. I learned later this can be an ADHD thing.Femme Bitch Top - Tribe 8The final section of the book Missy really comes into her femme identity. This is a classic femme-appreciation track from a dyke punk band I saw quite a few times in the '90s, a band that in this fictional world Andy probably would have known.Over - Syd (feat. 6Lack)This song is a soul crushing break-up track at the same time as being chill, like the moment you’re coming out of it and back to yourself.Racist, Sexist Boy - The Linda Linda’sUndeniably, the song of 2021.Be Afraid - Jason Isbell & The 400 UnitI basically listened to Jason Isbell non-stop while writing this book. I’m a lyrics-first listener, and he’s one of the finest. He writes about addiction and anxiety so well, and I wanted to include a track that spoke to those issues Missy deals with in the book. I chose this song because of the chorus. When I was pregnant and terrified of doing it alone I drove around singing this chorus. It’s also a hopeful refrain as the last track on this list.Zoe Whittall is the author of three previous novels, including the Giller-shortlisted The Best Kind of People, the Lambda-winning Holding Still for As Long As Possible, and her debut, Bottle Rocket Hearts. She has published three collections of poetry: The Best Ten Minutes of Your Life, Precordial Thump, and The Emily Valentine Poems. 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Flann's Playlist for Her Book "How to Survive a Human Attack" In the Book Notes series, authors create and discuss a music playlist that relates in some way to their recently published book.Previous contributors include Jesmyn Ward, Lauren Groff, Bret Easton Ellis, Celeste Ng, T.C. Boyle, Dana Spiotta, Amy Bloom, Aimee Bender, Roxane Gay, and many others.Kathy Flann's book How to Survive a Human Attack is as funny as it is inventive.In her own words, here is K.E. Flann's Book Notes music playlist for her book How to Survive a Human Attack:Did you know that human attacks account for a staggering 100% of premature deaths for werewolves, swamp monsters, cyborgs, witches, nuclear mutants, and other movie monsters? While humans have never been especially easy to dominate or eat, they are now more savvy, more ruthless, and more abundant than ever in the past 200,000 years. But if you are capable of despair, don’t! Help is available in the form of a new illustrated survival guide, How to Survive a Human Attack, with chapters tailored to specific preternatural beings. While anyone can feel down in the dumps sometimes, especially if one lives down in the dumps, studies indicate that melancholy correlates to sulking, not to world domination. As you read, molt, or ooze, it’s crucial to keep your spirits up and possibly your demons, too. What better way to shore up survival-grade optimism than to sing into a hairbrush and bop along to a playlist also tailored specifically to you? The book has three sections. Section 1 -- What is a Human? -- provides a general introduction with useful information about anatomy, habitats, and migrations. Section 3 features appendices for further reading about humans, including Appendix 1: A Compendium of Human Repellents. The book’s sandwich structure, with humans as the bread, is reflected in the playlist, which kicks off with Rob Zombie’s “More Human Than a Human” and ends with three chilling songs about humans’ general creepiness -- “Killing Moon” by Echo & the Bunny Men, “Human Behavior” by Bjork, and “Red Right Hand,” by Nick Cave. The bulk of the book, Section 2 of How to Survive a Human Attack, features species-specific chapters for mummies, zombies, swarms/flocks, vampires, and everyone in between. The playlist featured here offers songs to cater to every preternatural being in the guide. Exercise: Below you’ll find the chapter titles for Section 2. Can you match the chapters to the correlating songs on the playlist that follows? Frequently Asked Questions About Snacking and Mortality: A Zombie’s Guide to Filling the Emptiness and Moving ForwardSwamp Monster Makeovers: Fabulous Species-Defying Transformations to Win Friends and Confuse PeopleFirst-Time Haunter’s Guide for Ghosts, Spirits, Poltergeists, Specters, and Wraiths: How to Evict Squatters, Stay on Top of Mansion Disrepair, and Avoid Going to the LightSelf-Training 101 for Werewolves: Sit, Don’t Speak, Stay AliveDecode Angry Feelings Using C++: A Workbook for Androids and CyborgsHome Safety For Mummies: Welcome to the Third Eye Tomb Security SystemThe 6(66) Habits of Highly Effective Witches: Powerful Lessons in Survival Management“What’s Happening to My Body?”: Radioactive Mutants and the Safety of the Nuclear FamilyUSA! USA!: Exceptionally Large Beings and the Unanticipated Stress of Acknowledgement (Large Print Edition)The Benefits of Collaborative Consumption: A New Employee Handbook for Swarms, Flocks, Schools, Droves, Broods, Colonies, Murders, and HordesSheltering and Aging in Place: Tech Made Easy for VampiresMonster Mix PlaylistMore Human than a Human- Rob ZombieSurfin Dead -The CrampsCreature from the Black Leather Lagoon- Dracula and His Band the Draculas Baby, You’re a Haunted House -Gerard WayWerewolf -Michael HurleyWolf Like Me -TV on the RadioRobot Rock- Daft PunkRobot Man - Connie FrancisCity in Dust - Siouxsie & the Banshees Witchcraft in the Air -Betty LaverneAbracadabra - Steve Miller BandMaximum Radiation Level - Man or Astro Man?King Kong -The KinksAttack of the Giant Ants -BlondieDracula’s Wedding- OutKastKilling Moon - Echo & the BunnymenHuman Behavior -BjorkRed right hand- Nick CaveRenowned preternaturalist, K.E. Flann, holds PhD’s in disciplines that include Covert Forestry, Urban Disorganization, Robust Outdoor Pursuits, Human Husbandry & Management, and Inter-dimensional Cooperation.At the Ministry of Preternatural Resources, Flann serves as Cranial Impact Assessment Officer, drawing upon years of experience with paved areas, including Food Lion and the gas station, to ensure safe passage for visitors to the human world. During a distinguished career, Flann designed activities now accepted as best practice for introducing preternatural beings to their surroundings – these include human petting zoos, chasing demonstrations, and audio tours with rentable headsets.The beautiful Preternature Center is where Flann declines to answer questions from school children, the general population, or workers servicing the snack machines. With the exception of occasional guided public hikes to botanical landfills, during which visitors can collect parking fees, Flann maintains a general disconnect from human society. This lack of commitment provides the trustworthy voice on which supernatural, mutant, and AI beings have come to rely for objective guidance.Inspired by Roman thinker, Juvenal, who famously said, “It is difficult not to write satire,” Flann eschews difficulty by penning work for McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, The Weekly Humorist, Points in Case, Frazzled, Greener Pastures, Monkeybicycle, and other publications. 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Boyle, Dana Spiotta, Amy Bloom, Aimee Bender, Roxane Gay, and many others.Empathetic and moving, Atticus Lish's The War for Gloria is one of the year's boldest novels.Publishers Weekly wrote of the book:"Unflinching and heartbreaking . . . Lish imbues the male characters’ varied pitches of toxic masculinity with great sadness, smoothing the edges off their macho posturing, and he writes with devastating empathy of Gloria’s highs and lows. This is a tremendous achievement."In his own words, here is Atticus Lish's Book Notes music playlist for his novel The War for Gloria:I offer the following soundtrack for my novel The War for Gloria.As the story opens and we meet the two primary characters, Gloria and Corey, mother and son, living in a succession of apartments around Boston and even in her car, floating together in the stream of life like a single-celled organism, we hear “Destination Unknown” by Missing Persons: “Life is so strange…when you don’t know…how can you tell…where you’re going to…”.There’s no song that can introduce the character of Leonard Agoglia, Corey’s father and the man who presides over Gloria’s destruction. A man without music, his entrance calls for “Four Minutes and Thirty-three Seconds” of silence by John Cage. Of course, in light of Leonard’s fetish for science, one also thinks of “She Blinded Me with Science” by Thomas Dolby.When Gloria falls into an amorous embrace with Joan, we hear Asia’s “Heat of the Moment”: “I never meant to be so bad to you…one thing I swore I’d never do…” This lyric foreshadows how each woman will hurt the other. Neither will give herself fully, loyally and forever to their union. They are ambivalent and inwardly confused—but Joan especially is passionate.Joan’s solo song, that is, the music that announces her and her alone, would be “Real Wild Child” by Joan Jett and the Blackhearts.For the Hibbards—Tom the steady, solid construction worker and his daughter Molly—I hear a song by the immortal rock band Tesla, “Gettin’ Better”, which starts slow and melancholy, then banishes sorrow with a burst of positive chords on the guitar and a raucous yet tuneful cry from Jeff Keith’s lungs: “I’m a hardworkin’ man doin’ the best that I can!”Molly Hibbard is so significant that she must have her own walkout music. Corey’s admiration for her is alloyed with erotic longing, so I feel “Her Strut” by Bob Seger is appropriate and would go well with the summer barbecue scene where a thirteen-year-old Corey watches her from across the lawn.On the cusp of her diagnosis with ALS, Gloria feels an “electric strength”, a sensation of “new life” twitching in her muscles and nerves, which inspires her to write. For this, the magnificently energetic song “Coming Soon” by Queen should play.Gloria’s actual diagnosis calls for “Emotion No. 13” by the Suicidal Tendencies.To introduce Adrian Thomas Reinhardt, there will be no music at first, only the ambiguity of silence, but when he invites Corey to watch him hit the seventy-pound Everlast heavy bag that he hangs from his tree on the traffic island in Cambridge, Metallica’s thundering, pulsing, thrumming, rising, wave-breaking, crescendo-ing “Enter Sandman” must shatter our eardrums, for that is when we—and Corey—really begin to meet him.The soundtrack for Corey’s extended friendship with Adrian, a montage of scenes, should be “Mama We’re All Crazy Now” performed by Quiet Riot.Gloria is getting sicker. Her illness is real now. Death is coming, though not yet. Her life is going to be over. The things that could have been are lost. Memories pour through her. She can still feel the things she wanted. She drives to Jamaica Plain alone and goes to the Purple Cactus, an organic grocery, which means more than food to her. It represents her dream of reconciliation with the universe, a reprieve from her embattlement, a bower of leafy safety. She wanders the aisles and people pass her by like the wheel of life that she is leaving and we hear Berlin’s “Masquerade”:“When you see the price they paid, I’m sure you’ll come and join the masquerade…The reeling figures pass on by like ghosts in some forgotten play beneath a black and empty sky. The music plays, the figures dance, partners chosen by chance, and still sometimes remember…the masquerade’s forever…”In these eerie words, we hear the timeless whirl of natural life, the drama of mating, death and the reabsorption of the body into nature—the source of the magic food supplements and elixirs that Gloria handles wistfully in the store, knowing deep down that nothing can save her.A good song to accompany our view of Corey sitting in his high school classroom checking out the girls would be “School Days”, the 1977 single by The Runaways.Leonard Agoglia and Adrian Reinhardt meet in the basement at MIT. This coming together of two sociopaths is the equivalent of a radioactive rod clicking into a reactor core. Something atomic is about to happen. We hear “Last Days” by Onyx. Sticky Fingaz says: “South Suicide Queens…All [fellows]…Gather up all your own…Get ready for this new world order…Shit is about to change.”When Corey plays hooky from his construction job to hang out with Dave Dunbar and friends—frenetically lifting weights in the basement, playing hockey in the living room, drinking by the train tracks, punching each other in the arms—the song for the occasion would be Metallica’s roaring, rousing, moving rendition of “Whiskey in the Jar”.The state of mind Corey begins to adopt as a very angry young man can be dramatized by House of Pain’s 1993 single “Who’s the Man?”, especially these lyrics: “I got myself locked down in the pen. I ain’t got a friend. So here I go again. I gotta get my props up and earn my respect. Gotta shake someone up or throw him off the top deck. My time’s running out, I gotta spill some blood. If I don’t do it quick, shit, my name’ll be mud. So I pick out a hard rock and rush him in his cell. Beat his ass down and then say that he fell. And if I gotta do him, screw him, the convict’s dead. I’ll stab him in the chest just to let the rest of the cell block know that I’m nobody’s ho. My shank’s in my hand. So tell me who’s the man?”When Corey begins training with Eddie’s fight team, it’s hard work that goes somewhere you want it to go. So it’s time to kick Ice Cube’s “You Can Do It”: The woman, Ms. Toi, chants: “You can do it! Put your back into it!” The man, Ice Cube, replies: “I can do it! Put your ass into it!” This is sex reimagined as chain-gang work and chain-gang work reimagined as sex. Corey drives down the Mass Pike heading home to a showdown with his father. As he floors it going east staring out the window of his mother’s car, we will listen to Onyx’s echoing, doom-cry: “Bacdafucup”. After the showdown, as he rends his father’s clothes to shreds, we listen to Waylon Jennings singing “The Devil’s Right Hand.”In the moment Joan embraces Corey, our soundtrack must play Nancy Sinatra’s dizzying, swelling “Bossman”: “Any way you can…just take my hand…big boss man...”, which was deployed to devastating effect in The Sopranos.In the spring and summer as Corey goes to work at construction jobs first in South Boston and then, through Tom’s intervention, on a big union high rise project in the North End, we shall hear REO Speedwagon’s “Roll with the Changes.”When Corey reaches his hand out to Molly, touching her hip in her father’s kitchen, the right song is “Stone in Love” by Journey.There is no music for Gloria’s deterioration that fall. The household enters a sleepless, bleary “night world.”Gloria in her final coma: Memories flood the theater of her mind. She bids life goodbye. The music for this section, which concludes with her funeral, should be Tesla’s “Little Suzi” with its improbable lyrics, “Little Suzi’s on the up…”. What is it to be “on the up”? But it’s the right phrase. We may think of her spirit going up to heaven.I hear nothing for the bad things that happen next. I will leave it to the reader to supply his or her own score.When Corey reconstitutes himself and begins running on the beach, training to make the Navy SEALs, the proper soundtrack is “Freedom Fighter” off the hard-rocking Fire and Gasoline album by former Sex Pistol Steve Jones.Leonard’s final, eponymous chapter calls for the hollering, rollicking, guitar-heavy rendition of “2,000 Man” by Kiss. At the end, but before he ships out, when Corey meets and falls in love with the brown-haired girl, we learn that she has her own ambition to escape from Massachusetts and carve her mark in the world. On the stereo system of her parents’ Honda Odyssey, she plays for him “The Queens of Noise” by the Runaways, and we should hear it too. The last memorial scene, when the flowers go in the water, calls for “Guantanamera” by the Sandpipers.And in the final section, which ranges from the vision of a skydiving SEAL to the scholar who analyzes human affairs at her laptop while listening to the Rolling Stones’ “Street Fighting Man”, we the audience should also be hearing the Rolling Stones’ “Street Fighting Man.” Thus the war for Gloria ends—and goes on forever, generation after generation.Atticus Lish is the author of Preparation for the Next Life, which won the 2015 Pen/Faulkner Award for Fiction and the 2016 Grand Prix de Littérature Américaine.If you appreciate the work that goes into Largehearted Boy, please consider making a donation.Shorties (A New Essay by Ann Patchett, New Music from Emma Ruth Rundle, and more) The New York Times shared an essay by Ann Patchett.Stream a new song by Emma Ruth Rundle.September's best eBook deals.Today's best eBook deals.eBooks on sale for $1.99 today:Dreamland by Sam QuinonesThe Kingdom by the Sea by Paul TherouxOgilvy on Advertising by David OgilvyeBooks on sale for $2.99 today:The Color Purple by Alice WalkerBandcamp Daily delved into the history and legacy of Arlington's Inner Ear Studio.The New York Times and Bustle recommended the week's best new books.BBC Music Magazine listed the best Christmas albums and recordings.Electric Literature shared a reading guide to understanding Afghanistan.Stream a new Jennifer O'Connor song.Town & Country listed fall's most anticipated books.BrooklynVegan recommended the week's best new albums.Bookworm wrapped up its interview with Honoree Fanonne Jeffers.Vol. 1 Brooklyn interviewed writer and filmmaker Dustin Birmingham.Rob Sheffield discussed the music that got him through 9/11 and its aftermath.Full Stop interviewed author Tracy O'Neill.BrooklynVegan interviewed Saint Etienne's Bob Stanley.Curbed shared an essay by Leanne Shapton.Aquarium Drunkard interviewed Gareth Liddiard of Tropical Fuck Storm.Lauren Groff talked books and reading with ELLE.NPR Music remembered Lee "Scratch" Perry.Annie covered Patrick Swayze's "She's Like the Wind."Stereogum reconsidered the Moldy Peaches' self-titled album 20 years after its release.Stream a new song by Trace Mountains.If you appreciate the work that goes into Largehearted Boy, please consider making a donation.James Tate Hill's Playlist for His Memoir "Blind Man's Bluff" In the Book Notes series, authors create and discuss a music playlist that relates in some way to their recently published book.Previous contributors include Jesmyn Ward, Lauren Groff, Bret Easton Ellis, Celeste Ng, T.C. Boyle, Dana Spiotta, Amy Bloom, Aimee Bender, Roxane Gay, and many others.James Tate Hill's memoir Blind Man's Bluff is moving, funny, and ultimately hopeful.BookPage wrote of the book:"Disarmingly honest and funny…An inspiring, often incredible story that reminds us of the strength that come from vulnerability."In his own words, here is James Tate Hill's Book Notes music playlist for his memoir Blind Man's Bluff:Blind Man’s Bluff chronicles the loss of my sight at age sixteen and the decade and a half I tried my best to pretend I could still see. This turned out about as well as one might expect. During those years, music helped me make sense of emotions I couldn’t articulate. In the songs of artists like David Bowie and Prince, I could still hear possibility. Their imaginations probably fueled my desire to become a writer as much as any books I read.The following tracks convey some of the emotions found in Blind Man’s Bluff, although I hope, as the book enters the world, that I’ve gotten better at articulating those emotions myself.Harden My Heart by Quarterflash“I’m gonna harden my heart/I’m gonna swallow my tears.” This could be the unofficial anthem of all memoirs, no? Although we come to suspect, through Rindy Ross’s iconic vocals, that the titular heart remains quite vulnerable and many tears have gone unswallowed.Life on Mars by David BowieFew if any have ever known how to tell the weird kids we’re not alone like David Bowie, and this song has always felt like the purest distillation of that sentiment. Time to Pretend by MGMT“yeah, it’s overwhelming/but what else can you do?”Factory by Martha WainwrightMartha Wainwright’s self-titled debut is one of the albums I’ve listened to the most times in its entirety, and I could probably pick any track as a concise expression of a few years of my life. But let’s go with “Factory” and its opening lines “These are not my people/I should never have come here.”Haven’t Got Time for the Pain by Carly SimonOh, but we have so very much time for the pain, don’t we, Carly? Private Idaho by The B-52'sThen there are the B-52's, bless them for all eternity, who can make isolation and alienation feel like a wild party.One Night in Bangkok by Louise RobeyThis Murray Head classic will always hold a special place in my heart for reasons revealed in the latter pages of Blind Man’s Bluff. Rather than the original, however, I am including the cover by Canadian actress and singer Louise Robey, whose debut album I found myself listening to constantly during one of the loneliest years of my life. Billed only as Robey, she starred on one of my favorite shows of all time, Friday the 13th: The Series (1987–1990), which had nothing to do with the movie franchise of the same name. Have I mentioned the book has a lot to say about nostalgia?Let’s Pretend We’re Married by PrinceI could parse the words pretend or married in this track’s title, but I’d rather tell you what a revelation this song was when I first ventured from the lagoon of Prince’s greatest hits into the ocean of his entire catalog. Listening to Prince always made my small world seem so much bigger.Brilliant Disguise by Bruce SpringsteenThis song about a marriage crumbling under the weight of secrecy contains at least ten lines that break me in half. “God have mercy on the man/who doubts what he’s sure of.”Numb by SiaThis song, like so much of Sia’s work, is pure catharsis.Momentum by Aimee MannI could have picked any Aimee Mann song from the Magnolia soundtrack or Bachelor No. 2, and it’s so tempting to go with “Save Me” and its shout out to “the ranks of the freaks who suspect they could never love anyone.” But let’s spin this upbeat number about “condemning the future to death so it can match the past.”Rocket Man by Kate BushLong before I had ever heard of Kate Bush, I encountered her brilliant cover of “Rocket Man” on Two Rooms: Celebrating the Songs of Elton John and Bernie Taupin. Not surprisingly, Kate makes the timeless flight all her own.Grey Gardens by Rufus Wainwright“It’s very difficult to keep the line between the past and the present,” says Little Edie Beale at the start of this song in a clip from the movie Grey Gardens. It sure is, Edie.Let It Die by FeistIn my younger and more vulnerable years, which is to say 2007–08, I listened to Feist more than any other artist. Submitted without elaboration, here is a thematically appropriate favorite. Everybody’s Got to Learn Sometime by The KorgisThe lyrics of this one might be a little on the nose, but I love this song and remember being shocked to find out it was released in 1981 rather than, say, 2005. Love…Thy Will Be Done by MartikaAnother divot in Prince’s pop footprint, this song features half a dozen moments when Martika’s vocals make me shiver. No longer being able to hide or run has never sounded more beautiful.I drove all night by Cyndi Lauper I don’t know if Cyndi’s voice has ever sounded more gorgeous than it does in this song. Turn up the volume and let the power of her four-octave pipes shake something loose inside you. Cyndi has a way of making all night seem infinite and far too short.James Tate Hill is an editor for Monkeybicycle and a contributing editor at Literary Hub, where he writes a monthly audiobooks column. He has been listed in the 2019 edition of The Best American Essays and won the Nilsen Literary Prize for a First Novel for Academy Gothic.If you appreciate the work that goes into Largehearted Boy, please consider making a donation.Shorties (An Excerpt from Michaela Coel's New Book, Josh Ritter on His New Novel, and more) The Cut shared an excerpt from Michaela Coel's book Misfits.Coel discussed her favorite books with Vulture, and discussed the book with It's Been a Minute.Josh Ritter discussed his new novel with WBUR.August's best eBook deals.Today's best eBook deals.JER shared a ska cover of Phoebe Bridgers' "Kyoto."BuzzFeed recommended September's must-read books.The Creative Independent interviewed musician Louis Carnell.The Christian Science Monitor recommended books with insights into 9/11.Bustle recommended books to read if you like Sally Rooney.The Beaver County Times profiled Bob Mould.Electric Literature interviewed author Calvin Kasulke.Stream a new Julia Shapiro song.Morning Edition interviewed Alabama's new poet laureate, Ashley M. Jones.The Quietus interviewed experimental sound artist Elvin Brandhi.The New York Times profiled author Colson Whitehead.girl in red covered Kid Laroi and Justin Bieber's "Stay."Electric Literature shared an excerpt from Marlowe Granados's novel Happy Hour.Stream a new song by Mac McCaughan.Chicago magazine profiled author Sandra Cisneros.Stream a new Francis Of Delirium song.Literary Hub shared a conversation between Lauren Groff and Rebecca Makkai.Aquarium Drunkard interviewed Spiritualized's Jason Kember.The Women’s Prize for Fiction has been awarded to Susanna Clarke’s novel Piranesi.Amyl and the Sniffers discussed the influences behind the band's new album with BrooklynVegan.The OTHERPPL podcast interviewed poet Leigh Stein.Stream a new John Carpenter song.Thresholds interviewed author Alexandra Kleeman.Stream a new Colleen Green song.Stream a new song by Circuit des Yeux.If you appreciate the work that goes into Largehearted Boy, please consider making a donation.Shara McCallum's Playlist for Her Poetry Collection "No Ruined Stone" In the Book Notes series, authors create and discuss a music playlist that relates in some way to their recently published book.Previous contributors include Jesmyn Ward, Lauren Groff, Bret Easton Ellis, Celeste Ng, T.C. Boyle, Dana Spiotta, Amy Bloom, Aimee Bender, Roxane Gay, and many others.Shara McCallum's poetry collection No Ruined Stone is both inventive and captivating.Harriet Books wrote of the book:"McCallum employs a diction and style that is historically situated while managing to avoid caricature; the light sprinkle of Scots is used shrewdly to great effect in a sequence that brings Scotland and Jamaica together, layering the figure of the bard with that of the colonizer… While it asks us to consider a more complex version of Burns’s creative legacy and inheritance, and to examine our responsibility for the past, No Ruined Stone also contributes to the broader and timely discourse surrounding the history of colonialism, slavery, and abolition unfolding in Scotland."In her own words, here is Shara McCallum's Book Notes music playlist for her poetry collection No Ruined Stone:"Running Away," Bob MarleyNo Ruined Stone is a speculative account of history, grafted onto the real life of 18th-century Scottish poet and songwriter Robert Burns. In 1786, Burns’ ill-conceived plan to migrate to Jamaica to work as an overseer on a slave plantation seems to have been spurred by his desire to flee a series of bad love affairs and financial woes. Burns ultimately did not follow through with his plan, but to set my alternate narrative in motion, I changed one thread in that fateful year of his life. Burns’ first book of poems—which sold out in weeks, on publication in the fall of 1786, leading to acclaim, fame, and likely saving him from migrating—meets the fate of most books of poems and their authors: it does not sell well, Burns does not become widely known, and he gets on a ship for Jamaica.To create my fictive version of Burns and write in his voice, I had to get inside his head. Marley’s song ironically helped me locate Burns’ emotional reality when, in my book, he ‘runs away’ from Scotland and has to deal with the reality of becoming an overseer of enslaved Africans on the Springbank plantation. When my book opens, Burns is still figuratively running from and ruminating on all he has ‘done wrong,’ back in Scotland and, as he realizes on arriving in Jamaica, by implicating himself in slavery. When crafting Burns’ character, I kept hearing the end of Marley’s refrain: “you running and you running away…but you can’t run away from yourself.”"Bird on a Wire," Leonard CohenFrom I was a child in Jamaica, I listened to the music of Marley and Cohen. My father was a Rasta, a member of the Twelve Tribes of Israel, and fledgling singer-songwriter in 1970s Kingston. Like Burns, my father struggled with mental illness. In his shortened life—like Burns again—my father’s musical ambitions never met success, but he tried to find through his songs and his ideals a “way to be free.” I can’t remember my father singing “Bird on a Wire,” though I remember him singing another well-known Cohen song, “Suzanne,” and playing it on his guitar in our backyard in Kingston. While working on this book I listened anew and on repeat to Cohen, as to Marley. Writing from Burns’ vantage point, I wanted to draw near to male artistic ambition, which is at turns transcendent and destructive.“Ae Fond Kiss,” Robert Burns (Michael Marra's version and performance)After “Auld Lang Syne,” this is hands-down Burns best-known song. Throughout this book, I took liberties in revisioning Burns’ life and recasting lines from journals, letters, poems, and songs, including this one. “Ae Fond Kiss” is thought to have been written by Burns at the end of an affair with a real woman, Clarinda “Nancy” Mclehose. In No Ruined Stone, Burns writes “Ae Fond Kiss” in Jamaica, and Nancy, the song’s beloved, is the enslaved African woman on the plantation, with whom he has a many-year relationship. In the context of slavery, it is difficult to talk about love between an enslaved woman and a man in Burns’ position: could love between them even be possible? This is a question I dwell on in the second half of the book. But in the first half, when I invoke the song, it is from Burns’ perspective. He believes he loves Nancy and he ‘grieves’ the ‘severing’ of their relationship."Creep," RadioheadI love this song by Radiohead, how it zooms in on a state of acute self-consciousness. The song elicits in me empathy with the narrator’s feeling of being unworthy of the beloved and his alienation at feeling he’s a “creep,” a “weirdo,” and ‘doesn’t belong.’ I imagine it an analog to what Burns experiences after his relationship with Nancy ends. He spends years at Springbank watching her and his child from a distance, powerless to ‘buy’ their freedom. Nancy will not even look at him after a time, and Burns has to live with her scorn. In creating the narrative for this book, I realized I was putting Burns in circumstances where he would be trapped, and his despair became real to me. At the same time, I never lost sight of the irony that his grief over his own predicament often eclipses from his view the suffering of Nancy, his child, and the other enslaved people right in front of him. When I step back from the thrall of the raw emotional power of Thom Yorke’s writing and performance of “Creep,” I find myself wondering: how reliable is the narrator of this song, of any story, in delivering the whole truth?"Hurt," Johnny CashCash’s wrenching song is a death-bed anthem of regret. Like Cash, by the end, Burns wishes he could “start again, a million miles away,” that he “could keep himself” and “find a way.” When I researched this book, I traveled to Scotland many times and shared, with as many people as were kind enough to listen, the outline of the story I had in mind to write. Several people asked if I couldn’t imagine Burns more heroically, one person even suggesting had Burns gone to Jamaica he might have led a slave insurrection. The historical record, Burns’ actual biography, and what I’ve observed true of how most of us behave in times of extremity could not lead me to write such a book. My accounting of Burns in Jamaica casts him as neither hero nor villain, but it does end in regret, for Burns and for me. It hurts me still to have to admit the man is often lesser than his art.“Tu Tu Gbovi,” Traditional Ewe lullabyThis lullaby appears in both Ewe and my English rendering of it in the break between the two halves of the book. The second half of the book is Isabella’s story. Burns’ granddaughter, Isabella is born into slavery and migrates with her grandmother Nancy to Scotland, where she passes for white. When her section of the book opens, it is 1825, Isabella has recently married, and her grandmother has just died. I knew I needed to figure out how to encode, in the language of Isabella’s section, her inherited memory of the Middle Passage and rape and her childhood experience of slavery. I thought of what fragments might have been carried by Isabella and her grandmother before her, across multiple migrations. I thought of my migration from Jamaica to the US and what I retained—nursery rhymes, stories, and songs I heard early in life—and I went in search of Ghanaian lullabies. As much as any of the human figures, memory is a character in this book. The absences that become presences haunt Isabella. I do not speak Ewe, but I listened to and wordlessly sang this lullaby while writing Isabella’s section. I hope some remnant of this song is in her voice."Good Morning Heartache," Billie HollidayOne of the greatest sources of Isabella’s “heartache” is the death of her grandmother Nancy, who raised her from infancy after Isabella’s mother dies birthing her. Nancy becomes Isabella’s protector, managing their escape from slavery via their migration to Scotland: she has Isabella pass for white and poses first as her granddaughter’s slave and then as her servant for the rest of her life to maintain the lie and their freedom. When Nancy dies, the only person in Isabella’s life who knew who she was, who saw her, is now gone. As in the narrator of Holiday’s song, Isabella is being forced to confront what is “haunting” her. Holiday’s song is about grief, and its cyclical nature—“here we go again”—but it also offers a path to dealing with loss. If you can’t “shake” it, you have to change your approach. You have to learn to live with your “heartache,” invite it into your life, greet it, ask it to “sit down.”“Ae Fond Kiss,” Robert Burns (Eddi Reader's version & performance)Isabella’s anger toward Burns’ and Scotland’s occlusions regarding slavery flares at various moments. Throughout her section of the book, in monologues most often addressed to Burns, she picks up his own words, excavating and exposing their irony. Reframing “Ae Fond Kiss” from Isabella’s point-of-view and in this way, felt especially necessary for the narrative but was difficult for me to do actually. I love the song. As with several other Burns’ songs recorded by contemporary singers, I listened to Eddi Reader’s version of “Ae Fond Kiss” constantly while I worked on the book and grew incredibly fond of it. To give myself license for Isabella to invoke the song’s words and revise their meaning, as she does, I thought of what Reader says in one of her performances: that when she sings “Ae Fond Kiss,” she sings it for Nancy. She sounds the distaff side of the song Burns did not. Nancy in my book is a different woman than the Nancy Eddi Reader has in mind, but there is a shared desire in us both, I think, to expand the song beyond its maker’s purview. When Isabella references “Ae Fond Kiss” and castigates her grandfather—asking him “who paid best and dearest”—she is singing for her grandmother and all like her, whose stories remain far less heard and sung."Love Is Blindness," Cassandra WilsonI didn’t set out to write a love story, but this book required I wrestle with what love might have meant between black women and white men in the context of slavery. The vast majority of what occurred between enslaved women and white ‘masters’ could never be categorized as anything but rape. This is the case with Isabella’s mother, who is raped by Isabella’s father, the owner of the plantation. Still, the narrative of this book led me to wade into relationships more difficult to define and to face a question: is love possible when power relationships and social roles prescribe otherwise? It’s one I remain unable to entirely answer, so I enacted it. Isabella tries to come to terms with what Burns’ ‘love’ meant for her grandmother and she is pressed to understand what it means for her now, in relation to her husband, who does not know the truth of her past or identity. When creating this playlist, I couldn’t think of or find a song that spoke to Isabella’s experience, but I’ve long adored this one by Cassandra Wilson, and it kept resurfacing in my mind’s ear. If imprecisely, the song gestures to Isabella’s ambivalence and anxiety, with Wilson’s aching vocals and the lyrics’ assertion that “Love is blindness. I don’t want to see.”“I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel To Be Free,” Nina SimoneThis song might be a hair too upbeat to match the tone of the book’s ending. But I’m a huge fan of Nina Simone’s music and I came down on this as the closing song on this list because of what the lyrics and Simone’s voice are doing to create tension when set against the music. The lyrics allow us to experience freedom through metaphor (“like a bird in the sky”) and through Simone’s imagining the way her freedom could signal wider social change and serve more than just herself: “then you’d see and agree that every man should be free.” The song is brilliant in its use of paradox, allowing us to hold freedom in mind and in our bodies with the music’s tempo, even while the grammar (“I wish,” “it would feel”) is reminding us freedom is not yet achieved. Throughout Isabella’s half of the book, she is moving toward a choice about passing she will have to make for herself and does make by the end of the book. In the process, she comes to understand more precisely what freedom entails, her responsibility to her ancestors and history, as to the future and what she must pass on to her descendants.From Jamaica, Shara McCallum is the author of six books published in the US & UK, including No Ruined Stone (forthcoming 2021) and Madwoman (2017), which won the 2018 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Poetry and the 2018 Motton Book Prize from the New England Poetry Club. McCallum’s poems and essays have appeared in journals, anthologies, and textbooks throughout the US, Caribbean, Latin America, Europe, and Israel and have been translated into several languages, including Spanish, Italian, French, Romanian, Dutch, and Turkish. La historia es un Cuarto/History is a Room, an anthology of McCallum’s poems, translated and introduced by Adalber Salas Hernandez, will be published in 2021 by Mantis Editores in Mexico.If you appreciate the work that goes into Largehearted Boy, please consider making a donation.Shorties (An Interview with Atticus Lish, The Band Low Profiled, and more) The Paris Review interviewed author Atticus Lish.The Quietus and SPIN profiled the band Low.August's best eBook deals.Today's best eBook deals.Bandcamp Daily profiled Colleen Green.Annabel Abbs recommended memoirs about women walking in nature at Electric Literature.Stephen Deusner talked to InsideHook about his book Where the Devil Don't Stay: Traveling the South with the Drive-By Truckers.Fresh Air interviewed poet Joy Harjo.Stream a new song by MUNA.BuzzFeed recommended books published by small presses this fall.Stream an unreleased Radiohead song.Kristen Radtke wrote an op-ed for the Los Angeles Times.Jim Jarmusch's collages.Vulture listed the best books of the year so far.Stream a new Amyl & The Sniffers song.The Atlantic and Minneapolis Star Tribune profiled Lauren Groff.Stream a new song by Lala Lala.Electric Literature interviewed author Beth Morgan.Debutiful recommended September's best debut books.Stream a new song by Test Subjects.The Nervous Breakdown interviewed author with Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi.Vol. 1 Brooklyn previewed September's best books.Stream a new song by Claire Cronin.The Millions recommended the week's best books.If you appreciate the work that goes into Largehearted Boy, please consider making a donation.Anne Liu Kellor's Playlist for Her Memoir "Heart Radical" In the Book Notes series, authors create and discuss a music playlist that relates in some way to their recently published book.Previous contributors include Jesmyn Ward, Lauren Groff, Bret Easton Ellis, Celeste Ng, T.C. Boyle, Dana Spiotta, Amy Bloom, Aimee Bender, Roxane Gay, and many others.Anne Liu Kellor's Heart Radical is a moving memoir about the power of language.Foreword Reviews wrote of the book:"Anne Liu Kellor's intimate and revealing memoir Heart Radical concerns a struggle to know oneself--and to get into the heart of the Chinese people through language."In her own words, here is Anne Liu Kellor's Book Notes music playlist for her memoir Heart Radical:“Amazing Grace” by Ani DifrancoI once was lost but now I’m found…My roommate and best friend in college in Olympia introduced me to Ani. We had all of her CDs and listened to her on repeat. My heart was just opening to the Universe, to God, to the idea and felt sense of how connected I was to everything, to the Great Mystery, to the Vastness of the world and life. Ani connected this spiritual awakening in me with a simultaneous feminist awakening, even if I couldn’t name that then. I learned to wear grungy, baggy clothes, to shun the male gaze. I stopped wearing contacts, reverted to glasses. I spent most days alone, writing, getting high, walking in the woods, singing to myself. I wanted more friends and a partner, but more than this I wanted a soulmate, and since I knew these were hard to come by, I resigned myself to my aloneness, for now.“On & On” by Erykah BaduMost intellects do not believe in God but the fear is just the same…I didn’t grow up with religion, so I was not allergic to the word God like many can be. I didn’t have to deconstruct one worldview before I could construct another. If anything, I had to deconstruct atheism, but even atheism wasn’t drilled in by my family—it was more like an absence of any talk of spirituality or belief systems. It was more like a void. Now, listening to Ms. Badu as I walked the muggy streets of this continent of Asia I felt rooted in an earthy sensuality, in a reminder of my womanliness, of my Americanness, of my ability to own my want and love and power with attitude, even if that attitude was mostly internal. For now.“Ground On Down” by Ben HarperI have faith in a few things, in divinity and grace…When I went on the peace march for Tibet, we attended a Ben Harper concert in Seattle, and Ben invited us to come backstage. Ani-la, the Tibetan nun with us, presented him with a Tibetan flag. He gave us a few hundred dollars for our cause, apologizing that it wasn’t much. When we shook hands, he asked me, “Do I know you?” I shook my head, shy, but thrilled. What does it mean when someone thinks they’ve seen you before? Is it sometimes a recognition of the eyes, a glint, a nod towards mutual witnessing? Hello, fellow human being on the Path. Later, when I let two Tibetan monks listen to my mixtape on a long bus ride in China, they were perplexed by Ben Harper’s crooning and electric guitar. It was unfamiliar to them, this rock n’ roll. This kind of music that could ignite in me a place in between my politics and my faith.“Karmacoma” by Massive AttackNow take a walk, take a rest… taste the rest…I loved how you could buy pirated tapes and CDs in China. They were so cheap that I could afford to buy ten or more at once, try out musicians I’d never heard of or was curious about. Massive Attack was one of those, my gateway drug to trip hop. They will forever remind me of walking around Hong Kong with my headphones on, watching humanity stream by, a rush of people, movement, flow, and me finding my own flow in between the bodies, Chinese, British, Easterners, Westerners, international, riding a wave, silently observing, invisible, visible, racially ambiguous, gliding past, young, single, nameless, free.“Nothing to Lose (Yi Wu Suo You)” by Cui JianDo I really have nothing…My boyfriend in China introduced me to Cui Jian, the godfather of Chinese rock n’ roll. Cui Jian was a voice for a whole generation, rising to popularity in the 80s at the height of China’s new opening, when it was becoming possible for artists to find each other and have a voice, to borrow from rock n’ roll and fuse and create their own social movement. This song was also the unofficial anthem from the Tiananmen square student protests. Cui Jian performed it there in 1989, days before the tanks would roll in and fire away, killing thousands of people. The lyrics speak of a woman scorning a man because he has nothing, but beneath the metaphor the song speaks to the disillusionment of the youth, the lack of freedom people felt and were finally beginning to publicly name.“Let’s Go Crazy” by PrinceIn this life you’re on your own. And if the elevator tries to break you down, go crazy…I chose this quote for my high school senior yearbook. I wasn’t even the biggest Prince fan, but the choice has aged well. For I had no idea back then, in 1993, that a mere few years later I’d be quitting college and going to China for the first time, or how in 1999 I’d return to stay for three years. I had no idea how many times that elevator would try to break me down, how many times I’d end up quitting a job, leaving a relationship, or fleeing a town to escape. Leaving was my way of going crazy. And drinking and smoking and dancing. But despite my youthful flightiness, at least I already knew back then that life was too short to stay in a place where your heart does not belong.“Numb” by PortisheadAnd it’s loneliness that just won’t leave me alone.There was one time I had to flee a town because I kissed my best friend’s husband. I’d lived there for about six months, eating dinner with our tight group of Chinese and expat friends each night, feeling closer to having a community than I had my whole time in China, or maybe ever. And then I fucked it up. Granted, he pursued me. And I was hungry and flattered to be wanted and seen. But still. I made a choice. And then I had to leave. And after all this time, it’s her I miss. Someone who felt like a sister to me, someone who could have become a life-long friend.“Hidden Place” by BjorkWe go to that hidden place…Most of my time in China was spent in Chengdu, isolated away in my boyfriend’s apartment. Each day, he painted in one room, while I wrote in another. Afternoons we’d go out and run errands or sit in our favorite tucked-away teahouse to read and write and smoke. By early evening we’d return, squeezing past the chaos of the night market on our street, to hide away in our apartment again, watching pirated DVDs until early morning. I remember when we watched Bjork’s Dancer in the Dark, a musical like I’d never seen before, a musical about the death penalty, a musical that spoke to my red-bird depths of grief. I remember how achingly I cried from a deep, dark place. How her music, especially her next album Vespertine, woke something primal in me.“You and Whose Army?” By RadioheadCome, come on… you think you drive me crazy…During my last months in Chengdu, my boyfriend and I used to go to one of our only friend’s apartments out in the suburbs and sit on the rooftop. From that place up high, you could look out and not see any other buildings. It was still a grey cement building, still polluted China, still a night sky devoid of stars, but at least while sitting at that table, I could taste what it might feel like to not be so confined. So boxed in on all sides by people and judgments, silences and stares. And by a relationship that I had outgrown, but not yet admitted was over. Amnesiac was the perfect soundtrack to my bubbling over angst. To coming to know and coming to leave China, or all the ways that China— and violence and silence— have long lived in me.You forget so easilyWe ride tonightGhost horsesAnne Liu Kellor is a multiracial Chinese American writer, teacher, editor, and creativity coach. Her essays have appeared in publications such as Longreads, Witness, The New England Review, Entropy, Normal School, Vela Magazine, and Fourth Genre. Her work has received fellowships and awards from Hedgebrook, Seventh Wave, Jack Straw, 4Culture, and Hypatia-in-the-Woods. She lives in Seattle, where she facilitates private workshops for women and teaches writing for the Hugo House.If you appreciate the work that goes into Largehearted Boy, please consider making a donation.Shorties (Books That Examine 9/11's Legacy, Brandi Carlile's Joni Mitchell Cover, and more) PEN recommended books that examine the legacy of 9/11.Brandi Carlile covered Joni Mitchell's "Woodstock."August's best eBook deals.Today's best eBook deals.Stream a new Heartless Bastards song.Kirkus profiled poet Joy Harjo.Electric Literature shared an excerpt from Eduardo Berti's novel Vanessa Frontin: Volunteer Musician.Lawrence English talked listening with Aquarium Drunkard.Artnet recommended books for fans of Warhol, Basquiat, and Haring.Genre: A 33 1/3 Series will feature books on music genres.CBC Books recommended fall's most anticipated Canadian books.The Quietus interviewed Phonodelica's Donia Jarrar.The Los Angeles Review of Books interviewed author Chris Campanioni.Scientific Inquirer shared a conversation between author Matt bell and molecular engineer Seth Darling.If you appreciate the work that goes into Largehearted Boy, please consider making a donation.

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