![]() ![]() ![]() The thought alone seemed absurd-like saying, “Your mother used to enjoy food”-but I took my grandma’s words as a challenge. My mom used to like music? That implied that music was something one could eventually grow out of. I picked at my Applebee’s house sirloin (tell me you’re from Indiana without telling me you’re from Indiana) and scoffed. She said, “Ah, yes-your mother used to like music too. ![]() When I was in college at lunch with my 90-year-old grandma, I found myself trying to explain my obsession with Hot Chip. In her own words, here is Jen Winston's Book Notes music playlist for her memoir Greedy: In playfully queering the coming-of-age story, Winston has written something wholly original, and entirely delightful." One of her greatest strengths is in pivoting from acerbic wit to earnest reflection. "Winston viscerally describes the sense of being unmoored without language to describe herself and the difficult path to finding it, all with a breezy irreverence that will enamor her to fans of millennial essayists like Samantha Irby and Jia Tolentino. Jen Winston's Greedy is both memoir and treatise on bisexuality, a book incisive in its intelligence and abundant in its humor. 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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