![]() An interesting side note: I cannot write and listen to music at the same time. In fact, I created this playlist on Spotify long before writing about it for Largehearted Boy every film needs a soundtrack, I thought. When I write essays, I simultaneous imagine how my piece would materialize if also a film I simply can’t help thinking of them cinematically. And the “Oo-Ee-Oo” of the guards parading before the witch’s castle in The Wizard of Oz terrified me to bursting. As a kid, watching Goldfinger on ABC with my parents way past bedtime was a thrill. In his own words, here is Christopher Locke's Book Notes music playlist for his essay collection Without Saints: Locke knows how to make the ordinary feel fantastical and the fantastical ordinary." Every scene is taut, like a highwire, the only steady presence Locke's lyrical, quiet prose. ![]() "This slim volume of essays packs a dense punch, propelled, like a carnival ride, through Locke's Pentecostal upbringing to his years as a drug-experimenting teen punk, to his teaching career, family, and intermittent struggles with substance abuse. ![]() The essays in Christopher Locke's Without Saints are as poignant as they are intimate. Boyle, Dana Spiotta, Amy Bloom, Aimee Bender, Roxane Gay, and many others. Previous contributors include Jesmyn Ward, Lauren Groff, Bret Easton Ellis, Celeste Ng, T.C. 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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