"Epic and Lovely is 'alchemizing shit into the most beautiful thing' writ large." @modaviau.bsky.social shared a playlist for her novel Epic and Lovely at Largehearted Boy largeheartedboy.com/2025/09/25/m... @wvupress.bsky.social

“In my new novel, Beings, a couple driving home from their honeymoon in 1961 encounters a spaceship that irrevocably changes their lives." @ilanaslightly.bsky.social shared a playlist for her novel Beings at Largehearted Boy largeheartedboy.com/2025/09/24/i...

"My debut novel, LITTLE MOVEMENTS, is about dance, which means it’s inevitably about music" Lauren Morrow shared a playlist for her debut novel Little Movements at Largehearted Boy largeheartedboy.com/2025/09/23/l...

"...there are songs to which I return when I am working (often instrumental or with few lyrics) and songs that get to the ache of how I felt when writing some of the poems in this manuscript." Chet’la Sebree shared a playlist for her poetry collection Blue Opening at Largehearted Boy.

"A lot of authors write to background music. Not me. I like it quiet, my concentration entirely on the page. That is, until I began writing tic tic tic..." @heidiseabornpoet.bsky.social shared a playlist for her poetry collection tic tic tic at Largehearted Boy largeheartedboy.com/2025/09/18/h...

"I write, unfortunately, by feel. I can often sense there’s some connection or disruption between ideas or events or questions and so I write towards them. It’s incredibly inefficient." Jeremy B. Jones shared a playlist for his memoir Cipher at Largehearted Boy largeheartedboy.com/2025/09/16/j...

"This playlist is a score for Someone Else’s Hunger, tracking the speaker’s journey from a place of violence and self-abandonment to empowerment and reclamation..." Isabella DeSendi shared a playlist for her poetry collection Someone Else's Hunger largeheartedboy.com/2025/09/15/i...

"Music has always been a tremendous part of my life, so it makes sense that plenty of songs show up throughout the collection." @silashouse.bsky.social shared a playlist for his poetry collection All These Ghosts at Largehearted Boy largeheartedboy.com/2025/09/13/s...

"To me, music helps snare and distill a kind of emotional resonance, helps put it on the page sometimes..." @keithrosson.bsky.social shared a playlist for his novel Coffin Moon at Largehearted Boy largeheartedboy.com/2025/09/11/k...

"His best songs – all of his songs, really – manage to express tenderness, humor, empathy, irony, and an unblinking eye for the facts of life at the same time..." Tom Piazza shared a playlist for his book Living in the Present with John Prine largeheartedboy.com/2025/09/10/t...

"...there’s no substitute for the incredible emotional rush you get from music and some days I can hardly believe that I’ve been able to write without music pounding in my brain." @almakatsu.bsky.social shared a playlist for her novel Fiend at Largehearted Boy largeheartedboy.com/2025/09/09/a...

"Making this list, I discovered that I had far fewer musical associations with Trip than I expected to have." Amie Barrodale shared a playlist for her debut novel Trip at Largehearted Boy largeheartedboy.com/2025/09/08/a...

“Music has this uncanny ability to connect us--and literature offers this same resonance.” Melissa Fraterrigo shared a playlist for her memoir The Perils of Girlhood at Largehearted Boy largeheartedboy.com/2025/09/05/m...

"...I’m a firm believer in a melody’s ability to carry us along. I tried to pace out the song/poem pairings to approximate a soundtrack for the entire book..." Gary Jackson shared a playlist for his poetry collection small lives at Largehearted Boy largeheartedboy.com/2025/09/04/g...

"If I've done a good job writing for the day I feel like Mick Jagger at his sexiest and meanest..." Zoe Dubno shared a playlist for her debut novel Happiness and Love at Largehearted Boy largeheartedboy.com/2025/09/03/z...

"This song, with its delicious beat and proclamations about all the sins of one's life, is the vibe I want this collection with Jesus in the title to have." Melissa Lozada-Oliva shared a playlist for her collection Beyond All Reasonable Doubt, Jesus Is Alive! largeheartedboy.com/2025/09/02/m...

"This is Emiliana’s torch playlist. This is the burned CD she puts on when she’s 55 years-old and wants to go swimming in the nostalgia of her youth..." Alejandro Puyana shared a playlist for his debut novel Freedom Is a Feast at Largehearted Boy largeheartedboy.com/2025/08/29/a...

"Around 1990, when I was 12, my musical consciousness kicked in. I heard songs that felt like little portals into worlds so much more appealing than mine." Amanda Uhle shared a playlist for her memoir Destroy This House at Largehearted Boy largeheartedboy.com/2025/08/28/a...

"We see, with a kind of shock, what so many young girls have to struggle with—what it takes to strike out on your own, to pursue your dreams..." Paula Saunders shared a playlist for her novel Starting from Here at Largehearted Boy largeheartedboy.com/2025/08/27/p...

"Because I’m a junkie for structure, I divided the novel into 4 distinct parts, so I figured I’d do a playlist for each section..." @sgould.bsky.social shared a playlist for his novel Peace Like a River at Largehearted Boy largeheartedboy.com/2025/08/27/s... @regalhouse.bsky.social

"I’ve also been thinking about the way real places, when they appear in fiction, are subject to a kind of translation..." Natalie Bakopoulos shared a playlist for her novel Archipelago at Largehearted Boy largeheartedboy.com/2025/08/19/n...

"Writing those younger scenes involved tricking my brain into a toddler reality and I find music is a quick cheat to getting yourself back to a time, place or feeling." Phoebe Greenwood shared a playlist for her debut novel Vulture at Largehearted Boy largeheartedboy.com/2025/08/17/p...

"I write best after midnight, alone, and in complete darkness. Unfortunately, I don’t own a sensory deprivation tank, and if I held out for ideal conditions, I would hardly write anything at all." Sam Wachman shared a playlist for his debut novel The Sunflower Boys at Largehearted Boy.

"My Fonseca soundtrack is really three soundtracks reflecting just how long it took me to write this novel." Jessica Francis Kane shared a playlist for her novel Fonseca at Largehearted Boy largeheartedboy.com/2025/08/12/j... @penguinpress.bsky.social

"This novel is a work of experimental historical fiction that explores the tension between the pursuit for scientific advancement and the unending human interest in magic and myth." Jesi Bender shared a playlist for her novel Child of Light at Largehearted Boy largeheartedboy.com/2025/08/11/j...

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"Music is imagined in Crocosmia as a source for ecological and social remediation." Miranda Mellis shared a playlist for her novel Crocosmia at Largehearted Boy largeheartedboy.com/2025/08/07/m...

"Ultimately I wanted to make something that, like my favorite works of fiction, changes form and shape while in the reader’s hands." Emily Hunt Kivel shared a playlist for her debut novel Dwelling at Largehearted Boy largeheartedboy.com/2025/08/05/e... @fsgbooks.bsky.social

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"...songs, which collectively evoke the desperate, unanswerable hunger for all-consuming connection that is Olive’s animating struggle." Jessica Gross shared a playlist for her novel Open Wide at Largehearted Boy largeheartedboy.com/2025/08/06/j...