At Largehearted Boy, essayist, literary experimentalist, and scholar Mary Capello shares an annotated playlist for her new essay collection, Life Breaks In (University of Chicago Press). She describes mood as the “companion and muse” for her writing:
If there is one subject under the sun that defies our ordering systems even as it tempts us to apply lists to it again and again and again, it is mood.
Her Spotify playlist includes Nina Simone, Prokiev, Caroline Shaw, and more.
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