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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 Bret Easton Ellis , Kate Christensen , Kevin Brockmeier , George Pelecanos , Dana Spiotta , Amy Bloom , David Peace , Myla Goldberg , and many others. Chopsticks is a breathtaking YA novel, a groundbreaking exercise in visual storytelling. The book tells its tales through illustrations and photos, while the app and online components add [...]

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 Bret Easton Ellis , Kate Christensen , Kevin Brockmeier , George Pelecanos , Dana Spiotta , Amy Bloom , David Peace , Myla Goldberg , and many others. Josh Bazell's debut Beat the Reaper was one of my favorite novels of 2009 , and its sequel Wild Thing is also impressive. Fast-paced, violent, odd, and [...]

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 Bret Easton Ellis , Kate Christensen , Kevin Brockmeier , George Pelecanos , Dana Spiotta , Amy Bloom , David Peace , Myla Goldberg , and many others. Katie Ward's Girl Reading is an ambitious and cleverly executed debut novel, the stories of seven portraits of women reading through the ages woven into a cohesive narrative. [...]

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 Bret Easton Ellis , Kate Christensen , Kevin Brockmeier , George Pelecanos , Dana Spiotta , Amy Bloom , David Peace , Myla Goldberg , and many others. Dan Chaon has proven himself once again a master of the short story with his haunting second collection Stay Awake . The New York Times [...]

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 Bret Easton Ellis , Kate Christensen , Kevin Brockmeier , George Pelecanos , Dana Spiotta , Amy Bloom , David Peace , Myla Goldberg , and many others. Steve Erickson's new novel These Dreams of You impressively weaves themes of family, politics, race, and identity into a riveting story that spans 50 years. [...]

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 Bret Easton Ellis , Kate Christensen , Kevin Brockmeier , George Pelecanos , Dana Spiotta , Amy Bloom , David Peace , Myla Goldberg , and many others. Alan Glynn's Bloodland is a well-written and satisfyingly complex international conspiracy thriller. The Guardian wrote of the book: "I've not read [...]

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 Bret Easton Ellis , Kate Christensen , Kevin Brockmeier , George Pelecanos , Dana Spiotta , Amy Bloom , David Peace , Myla Goldberg , and many others. One Model Nation is an ambitious graphic novel written by Dandy Warhols frontman Courtney Taylor-Taylor that tells the story of a German band that rises to stardom only [...]

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 Bret Easton Ellis , Kate Christensen , Kevin Brockmeier , George Pelecanos , Dana Spiotta , Amy Bloom , David Peace , Myla Goldberg , and many others. Hanne Blank's Straight: The Surprisingly Short History of Heterosexuality is a cultural history of heterosexuality, thoroughly researched and persuasive in its arguments. This important examination of sexual identity is [...]

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 Bret Easton Ellis , Kate Christensen , Kevin Brockmeier , George Pelecanos , Dana Spiotta , Amy Bloom , David Peace , Myla Goldberg , and many others. Keshni Kashyap's graphic novel Tina's Mouth is aptly subtitled "An Existential Comic Diary." Written in the form of a school-assigned diary written to philosopher Jean Paul Sartre, the book [...]

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 Bret Easton Ellis , Kate Christensen , Kevin Brockmeier , George Pelecanos , Dana Spiotta , Amy Bloom , David Peace , Myla Goldberg , and many others. A sequel to his 1997 book, The Hunt Club , Bret Lott's new novel Dead Low Tide is a literary thriller set in the South Carolina Lowcountry. [...]

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 Bret Easton Ellis , Kate Christensen , Kevin Brockmeier , George Pelecanos , Dana Spiotta , Amy Bloom , David Peace , Myla Goldberg , and many others. Stewart O'Nan's new novel The Odds is a brilliant depiction of a marriage on edge, clinging to hope while its participants' vulnerabilities are fully on show both to [...]

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 Bret Easton Ellis , Kate Christensen , Kevin Brockmeier , George Pelecanos , Dana Spiotta , Amy Bloom , David Peace , Myla Goldberg , and many others. In his latest novel What It Was , George Pelecanos vividly recreates the Washington, D.C. of the early 1970s through the eyes of one of his most memorable characters, private [...]

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 Bret Easton Ellis , Kate Christensen , Kevin Brockmeier , George Pelecanos , Dana Spiotta , Amy Bloom , David Peace , Myla Goldberg , and many others. Roxane Gay's story collection Ayiti is filled with powerful depictions of Haiti and its residents, and is an auspicious debut for this talented author. [...]

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 Bret Easton Ellis , Kate Christensen , Kevin Brockmeier , George Pelecanos , Dana Spiotta , Amy Bloom , David Peace , Myla Goldberg , and many others. With his new novel The Flame Alphabet , Ben Marcus once again proves he is one of America's most ambitious writers. In this dystopian tale the speech of children causes [...]

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 Bret Easton Ellis , Kate Christensen , Kevin Brockmeier , George Pelecanos , Dana Spiotta , Amy Bloom , David Peace , Myla Goldberg , and many others. Shalom Auslander's debut novel Hope: A Tragedy is the funniest book I have read in years. Dark, irreverent, and quirky as any book featuring a still living Anne Frank [...]

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 Bret Easton Ellis , Kate Christensen , Kevin Brockmeier , George Pelecanos , Dana Spiotta , Amy Bloom , David Peace , Myla Goldberg , and many others. MTV Geek compared Daniel O'Malley's debut novel The Rook to "Downtown Abbey with superpowers," which captured my own feelings almost perfectly. This supernatural urban fantasy is clever, imaginative, [...]

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 Bret Easton Ellis , Kate Christensen , Kevin Brockmeier , George Pelecanos , Dana Spiotta , Amy Bloom , David Peace , Myla Goldberg , and many others. Leigh Stein's debut novel The Fallback Plan is filled with In pitch-perfect language both honest and hilarious, and is as entertaining as it is smart. ELLE [...]

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 Bret Easton Ellis , Kate Christensen , Kevin Brockmeier , George Pelecanos , Dana Spiotta , Amy Bloom , David Peace , Myla Goldberg , and many others. In her blurb for Trinie Dalton's new short story collection, Baby Geisha , Eileen Myles insightfully referred to the book as a "travelogue." Though the characters travel their journeys are [...]

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 Bret Easton Ellis , Kate Christensen , Kevin Brockmeier , George Pelecanos , Dana Spiotta , Amy Bloom , David Peace , Myla Goldberg , and many others. Alex Gilvarry's debut From the Memoirs of a Non-Enemy Combatant is a startling, dark and funny post-9/11 novel, one that brilliantly mixes current politics and our obsession with celebrity [...]

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 Bret Easton Ellis , Kate Christensen , Kevin Brockmeier , George Pelecanos , Dana Spiotta , Amy Bloom , David Peace , Myla Goldberg , and many others. Jessica Keener's debut novel Night Swim is a masterfully told tale. Dysfunctional family dynamics are revealed in language evocative and honest, and her characters so well-drawn they could be [...]