Music and Literature Reading List
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
Michael Robbins
“Walkman” from Robbins’s Equipment for Living: On Poetry and Pop Music
Simon & Schuster 2017
Vikram Seth
An Equal Music
Broadway Books, 1999
Tracy K. Smith
“Don’t You Wonder, Sometimes?” and “Alternate Take: Levon Helm”
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
