![]() ![]() Songs were swirling around me the entire time and the ones that seeped into the fabric of the experience fell into many different categories. During the five years it took me to write the novel, I started the jazz website Destination: OUT with a friend and wrote about music for various publications. And he and his friends try to steal instruments so they can start their own band. He's given a cassette tape featuring music by a damaged singer who's gone into hiding in the projects. The narrator encounters a trio of teenage oracles who perform a concert in a decaying mansion. In his own words, here is Jeff Jackson's Book Notes music playlist for his debut novel, Mira Corpora: If you don't have Spotify yet, sign up for the free service. ![]() Stream a Spotify playlist of these tunes. ![]() "Through an often sordid and savage phantasmagoria, Jackson, also a playwright blurs the boundaries between the real and the imaginary, creating an unsettling allegory of growth into adulthood." Jeff Jackson's Mira Corpora is a masterfully written debut, an often brutal coming of age tale as unsettling as it is brilliant. Previous contributors include Bret Easton Ellis, Kate Christensen, Kevin Brockmeier, George Pelecanos, Dana Spiotta, Amy Bloom, Aimee Bender, Myla Goldberg, Heidi Julavits, Hari Kunzru, and many others. In the Book Notes series, authors create and discuss a music playlist that relates in some way to their recently published book. ![]()
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