Music and Literature Reading List
2018; University of Oklahoma; Volume: 92; Issue: 5 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1353/wlt.2018.0033
ISSN1945-8134
Autores Tópico(s)Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies
ResumoNieland: I’d like to tackle the Upanishads, but we’ll see if we get to that. Honestly, it’s the books that I don’t expect to be inspired by that often yield the most memorable songs for me. I’m forced to bring a lot of myself into play with the writer’s material. So I look forward to the books that I don’t even know about. Johnson: What’s your next big project? Hwang: We have so many songs that we’ll be recording and releasing on vinyl soon. I look forward to the full vinyl album. I look forward to the music videos that will come out of them, too! Lusterlit is in correspondence with Bushwick Book Club Malmö, and we’re looking forward to our first European tour with shows in Sweden, the UK, and Germany. Maybe Greece. There are radio stations playing us in Greece! Nieland: We have so much material that we’re in the middle of recording. Songs inspired by Kurt Vonnegut, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Jane Austen, David Lynch, Dame Darcy, Steve Martin, Chuck Palahniuk , Téa Obreht, and lots more. Next, we’re going to make the first Lusterlit albumlength release, and that will be so exciting . And we’re going to continue to make singles and EPs consisting of songs inspired by a specific author or book. And more music videos. And bringing Lusterlit and the Bushwick Book Club to Europe and further. Sounds like four or five projects. It’s songs about books and it’s one big project, though. And making huge fun. That’s the biggest project. Michelle Johnson is WLT’s managing and culture editor. Visit worldlit.org to listen to the two songs Hwang and Nieland wrote for Reidar Jönsson’s My Life as a Dog. Hanif Abdurraqib, They Can’t Kill Us Until They Kill Us: Essays (Two Dollar Radio, 2017) Erica Dawson, When Rap Spoke Straight to God: A Poem (Tin House, 2018) Virginie Despentes, Vernon Subutex 1, trans. Frank Wynne (MacLehose Press, 2017) Mathias Énard, Compass, trans. Charlotte Mandell (New Directions, 2017) Aja Gabel, The Ensemble (Riverhead Books, 2018) Shayla Lawson, I Think I’m Ready to See Frank Ocean (Saturnalia, 2018) Pam Muñoz Ryan, Echo; narrators Mark Bramhall, David de Vries, Andrews MacLeod, & Rebecca Soler (Scholastic, 2015) Haruki Murakami, 1Q84, trans. Jay Rubin & Philip Gabriel (Harvill Secker, 2011) Elena Passarello, Let Me Clear My Throat: Essays (Sarabande Books, 2012) “Walkman,” by Michael Robbins, online at theparisreview.org (Issue 218, Fall 2016) and the playlist concluding Robbins ’s Equipment for Living: On Poetry and Pop Music (Simon & Schuster 2017), which mixes Matsuo Bashō, Beyoncé, Gwendolyn Brooks, and the Beastie Boys. Vikram Seth, An Equal Music (Broadway Books, 1999) Tracy K. Smith, “Don’t You Wonder, Sometimes?” and “Alternate Take: Levon Helm” in Life on Mars (Graywolf, 2011) Greg Tate, Flyboy 2: The Greg Tate Reader (Duke University Press, 2016) Niall Williams, As It Is in Heaven (Warner Books, 1999) Kevin Young, Brown: Poems (Knopf, 2018) Zoran Živković, Seven Touches of Music, trans. Alice Copple-Tošić (Aio, 2006) Music and Literature Reading List by Michelle Johnson WORLDLIT.ORG 43 ...
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