Colm TÓibÍn on Joni Mitchell • James Wood on The Who • Stacey D'Erasmo on Kate Bush • Daniel
Handler on Eurythmics • Lisa Dierbeck on the Pretenders • Clifford Chase on the B-52s . . . and
other writers on the soundtracks of their lives.
In Heavy Rotation, twenty of our most acclaimed contemporary writers pay homage
to the record albums that inspired them. Benjamin Kunkel remembers how the Smiths'
Queen Is Dead transformed him into an adolescent Anglophile. Pankaj Mishra describes
how a bootleg cassette of ABBA's Super Trouper evoked a world far from his small Indian
village. Kate Christensen relives her years as an aspiring novelist in Brooklyn listening to
Rickie Lee Jones's Flying Cowboys. And Joshua Ferris recalls his head-banging passion for
Pearl Jam's Ten. Exploring music from the Talking Heads to the Hedwig and the Angry Inch
soundtrack, this extraordinary anthology is a moving, funny, uplifting, and unforgettable
celebration of the unique and essential relationship between life and music.
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