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James Han Mattson's novel The Lost Prayers of Ricky Graves is a masterfully orchestrated debut about love, loss, and community. Kirkus wrote of the book: 'Mattson expertly teases out the relationships between our real lives and our social media feeds, the faces we show to the world and the ones we must confront in the mirror. A moving debut about the intersections of rural queerness, the internet, and forgiveness.' In his own words, here is James Han Mattson's music playlist for his novel: I wrote in three countries, five states, and twelve cities. In each place, I listened to different music, partly because my character focuses shifted with each new locale, and partly because I needed a distraction from the heavy subject matter of the novel. In Korea and South Africa, I used music to enliven me, to stave off some of the deep alienation I regularly felt, and in the States, my playlist showcased more ruminative and sentimental outpourings—it became a portal to both my adolescence and young adulthood.

I wrote much of Jeremy's sections while living in San Francisco, the city serving as his geographical reality, and the music I listened to then, interestingly, conjured significantly less angst than the music I listened to while living in southern Maine, writing Mark and Claire. I wrote some of Harriet, Alyssa, and Corky in every place I lived, so the musical inspiration for those characters wasn't tethered to any particular geographical location, but to all of them at once. Below is a list of songs that were meaningful for me during the writing process.

Each contributed to my understanding of the characters—and my understanding of myself as a nomadic writer—in different ways. 'Ring Ding Dong' by SHINee K-pop is everywhere in Korea—you can't go anywhere without it assaulting you in some fashion.

As such, while you might initially dislike—or even abhor—it, you eventually grow used to it, and often, that acclimatization transforms into a strange sort of love, no matter your age. In Seoul and Busan, I regularly felt culturally isolated, and I used these feelings to concoct Ricky Graves. It worked pretty well, but I still needed an outlet for decompression, so: K-pop. With its glitzy, catchy beats, the music helped me momentarily get away from the weightiness of both Ricky's and my reality, and this song, in particular, allowed for some actual fun. (Full disclosure: I studied the dance moves in the video and performed them in front of my mirror. Importing Sketchup Files To Rhinovirus. ) The song itself is delightfully weird lyrically. For example: We wanna go rocka, rocka, rocka, rocka, rocka, rock
so fantastic go rocka, rocka, rocka, rocka, rocka, rock
so elastic fantastic, fantastic, fantastic, fantastic
elastic, elastic, elastic, elastic Ring Ding Dong, Ring Ding Dong,
Ring Diggy Ding Diggy Ding Ding Ding Sadly, one of the lead singers recently committed suicide, making this playlist entry all the more significant.

'Fire' by 2NE1 I heard this song every day for the first few months I lived in Korea, and I took to it almost immediately. It contains the chirpy bubbliness present in most K-Pop songs, but there's also something else, something almost anxious, particularly in the verses, and as I was creating the town that would ultimately become The Springs, I thought about how veneers—of place, of people, of music—often obscure serious underlying concerns. While I wouldn't go so far as to say that this song obscures any substantial concerns, every time I hear it, I sense some small anger trying to break through.

'Rise Above This' by Seether This is the only song on the list that directly discusses depression and suicide. It's both lyrically and musically simple, and this simplicity allows for a more affecting experience. The South African band seems to have written lyrics aimed directly at people like Ricky Graves, particularly these lines: And everything's in vain, distressing you, don't leave me open Feels so right but I'll end this all before it gets me 'Fishin' in the Dark' by Nitty Gritty Dirt Band This song is mentioned by name in the novel—it reminds Corky of his days with Ricky at Camp Burroway.

It reminds me of my adolescence in Grand Forks, North Dakota. In the nineties, it seemed teenagers in my town were split musically—some listened to grunge, the rest, to country. The song, for me, is emblematic of those country-listeners I grew up with, the more conventional kids for whom the cloistering mechanism of the town itself was rather amenable.

'Nothing Left 1' by Orbital There's a sort of ordered frenzy to each character, all of them struggling to keep composure in the aftermath of Ricky's crime, and this song perfectly captures that state. It's at once haunting and delicate, mesmerizing and creepy, and I listened to it on repeat for a few days after finishing the first draft.

'Killer Queen' by Queen Whenever I listen to Queen, I think about how important it is to actually enjoy what you do. Many times while writing, I found myself drowning in the quagmire of despair—I kept running into logistical snags, plot holes, voice deteriorations. Queen, and particularly the song 'Killer Queen,' with its vivacity and verve and surprising complexity, helped pick me up out of that pit and get me writing again. 'Hotwax' by Beck The only thing that completely clears my head is vigorous exercise. Over the last seven years while writing and revising and editing this novel, I joined a number of gyms, using them as tools to promote both health and sanity. Cardio always had me listening to Beck, and particularly 'Hotwax' the second track on the much-celebrated album.

It's wonderfully rhythmic and fun, and I always love when the 'enchanting wizard of rhythm' talks at the end. 'Breathe Me' by Sia The breathy melancholy of this song amplifies any sad denouement, as evidenced by the finale of the outstanding TV show Six Feet Under. My personal writing denouement, with respect to this novel, occurred in Maryland, right after my final edits were complete and before the book was published. It was a time of reflection and deliberation, a time of explicit sentimentality, and I am not ashamed to admit that sometimes, theatrically, I listened to 'Breathe Me' and looked pensively out the window. 'Bat Country' by Avenged Sevenfold Mark McVitry mentions Avenged Sevenfold in one of his sections, and the band's music to me perfectly embodies young white male ennui-slash-aggression. For example, the band starts its Bat Country video with a Samuel Johnson quote: He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.

Mark was certainly the most challenging character to write—I have never experienced, nor have I ever understood, unadulterated privilege; I find it terrifying in its unbridled possibility. This song, as well as a host of others like it, helped me get in touch with the idea of privilege, and the immense lack of self-awareness that often accompanies it.

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In her new book, Maud Casey astutely breaks down how writers (including Shirley Jackson, Flannery O'Connor, James Baldwin, and others) infuse elements of mystery into their works. Like the previous volumes in this Graywolf Press series, is an invaluable book for both writers and readers of literature. Kirkus wrote of the book: 'This slim but astute volume is an inducement both to read more deeply and to head for ever more unchartered, frozen, mysterious waters.' In her own words, here is Maud Casey's music playlist for her book: James Baldwin wrote, 'The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions hidden by the answers.' If mystery, the genre, is about finding answers, then mystery, the elusive literary quality, is about finding questions. Is about this other kind of mystery.

It's a kind of mixtape—an associative, meditative wander through books (Deszo Kostalanyi's, Paul Yoon's, Barbara Comyn's, Shirley Jackson's, to name just a few) that have left their mark on me because of their abiding interest in laying bare hidden questions, and because of their abiding interest in wonder. I recently read Rilke's for the first time and came across this line about music, which sums up what I'm seeking in music, books, art, landscape, love of all varieties, a walk around the block: 'I had noticed that it never dropped me again where it had found me, but lower down, somewhere in the deep unfinished.' I sometimes listen to music while I write—wordless music, which doesn't mean without language. A variety of hypnosis to keep the wolves at bay and to take me someplace deeper. The two albums I listened to almost exclusively while writing: a Verve compilation of Lester Young and Sonny Rollins's.

There was something going on with me and the saxophone apparently. 'On the Sunny Side of the Street,' Lester Young with the Oscar Peterson Trio.

'On the Sunny Side of the Street' is, of course, a wistful song. Implied is the other, unsunny side of the street. In the famous interview with Francois Positif in Paris in March 1959, not long before Young died, Young said he didn't like a lot of noise, that he was looking for something sweet.

Then he goes on to define sweetness. It can be funky, he says. It can be salty, which he totally is in that interview ().

It can be all kinds of things, which his sound is, including melancholy with a tinge of the mystical, always chasing that dragon, mystery. 'I Am An Old Cowhand (From the Rio Grande),' Sonny Rollins. Originally a comic song sung by Bing Crosby in the 1930s movie Rhythm on the Range, Rollins's version starts goofy and heads into the ineffable wide open of the West. I'm more magpie than completest and I got to because of the album cover with its William Claxton photograph of Rollins, sporting a Stetson hat and a holster with a saxophone where the pistol should be, standing in a landscape of cactus and cattle skull. The whole thing looks, at first, as if it's being offered up in quotation marks but Rollins said it was in honor of his first trip out west and as the song gets going, goofy is left in the dust, and the song heads out with wild sincerity for untrammeled territory. And then, a sampling of wordful music that, during the course of writing this book, and lots of other times, dropped me lower down, in the deep unfinished: 'Rejoice,' Julien Baker.

'I rejoice and complain/I never know what to say' and later, 'I rejoice and complain/Lift my voice that I was made' There's a great video of just her and her guitar, standing in the bleachers of Percy Warner Park in Nashville. She starts low and slow and quiet. The song builds and builds and, by the end, she's scream-singing.

She's got a fabulous, big mouth to match her fabulous, big voice. Baker often wears a t-shirt that says 'Sad Songs Make Me Feel Better.'

The song reminds me of the 1969 series by On Kawara. Telegrams sent over the course of three days: I AM NOT GOING TO COMMIT SUICIDE DON'T WORRY. I AM NOT GOING TO COMMIT SUICIDE WORRY. I AM GOING TO SLEEP FORGET IT.

A month later, a telegram that says: I AM STILL ALIVE. 'Map on a Wall,' Lucy Dacus. A seven-minute song that travels a great distance. Dacus has a deep, bounteous voice, a little like Erika Wennerstrom from Heartless Bastards, but she's very much her own thing. I love a road trip and this song is my favorite part of road tripping—the getting there.

The song is a combination of self-doubt ('Please don't make fun of me') and anticipatory desire, in a constant, delicious state of arrival. 'Acid Tongue,' Jenny Lewis. I would be a happier person if I listened to this song every day of my life. 'I went to a cobbler/To fix a hole in my shoe/He took one look at my face and said/ 'I can fix that hole in you'/I beg your pardon, I'm not looking for a cure.' With mystery, no cure.

'Norma,' Knife in the Water. I'm still changing my mind about which of their songs to include. There are so many good ones! The harmonies of Aaron Blount and Laura Krauss and the pedal steel haziness is sexy and elegiac. That they made their most recent record twenty years after their last is a comfort to me, a writer who moves slowly. How long art takes to make is a mystery. 'Over the Hills and Far Away,' Led Zeppelin.

'Many is a word/that only leaves you guessing/guessing ‘bout a thing/you really ought to know.' When I was fifteen, I fell asleep to this song every night. I listened to it on cassette, on a tape recorder that looked better suited to a detective movie than getting the Led out. It was pathetic but then I was fifteen and deep into pathos. I recently went to a pizza place whose walls were decorated with pizza album cover paintings.

The Parliament mothership made out of pizza, David Bowie's with pepperonis floating behind his profile, and, with those prepubescent blond girls, mini-Robert Plants, slithering across the rocks toward a slice. 'There's a Break in the Road,' Betty Harris. Actually, the entire double album,. Lost suggests she needed to be found but she sure doesn't sound like she needed to be found. She was always most definitely somewhere, reminding us about mystery: 'There's a break in the road/a break in every road.' Maud Casey and links: also at Largehearted Boy: (authors create music playlists for their book) (authors create music playlists for their book) (authors create music playlists for their book) (interviews with up and coming female comics artists) (weekly comics highlights) (recommended new books, magazines, and comics) (musicians discuss literature) (writers pair a song with their short story or essay) (daily music, literature, and pop culture links) (composers and directors discuss their film's soundtracks) For the tenth straight year, I am aggregating every online year-end book list I find.

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Stocks eye Obama, Fed, earnings (Reuters) NEW YORK (Reuters) – With Wall Street in the middle of an earnings free fall, investors will eye any moves from the White House next week to revive banks and craft a recovery plan to salvage the economy from its year-long recession. Investors also will tune in to the Federal Open Market Committee's statement from the meeting on Tuesday and Wednesday for any clues on how the Federal Reserve will address these problems. Next week, 137 companies in the S&P 500 and 12 Dow components will report earnings, in what's expected to be the weakest in this six-quarter streak of negative growth. Banks in particular will be in focus as news that President Barack Obama and his economic advisers will meet on Saturday fueled hopes that the new administration will put together another rescue package for the ailing banking sector.

The progress of the $825 billion economic recovery package being crafted in Washington will also be closely observed. On Friday, President Obama urged lawmakers to act swiftly, saying the United States was experiencing 'an unprecedented economic crisis.' 'For investors, a lot is riding on the upcoming stimulus plans,' said Michael Sheldon, chief market strategist at RDM Financial in Westport, Connecticut. Data on home sales, jobless claims and a reading on the fourth-quarter U.S.

Gross domestic product next week will likely confirm Obama's viewpoint. Still, the path is likely to be anything but smooth for the economic recover. U 06:50 • • • • ponedjeljak,.

Nobel winner Harold Pinter dies at 78 Harold Pinter, the Nobel Prize-winning playwright and screenwriter whose absurdist and realistic works displayed a despair and defiance about the human condition, has died, according to British media reports. Pinter's wife, Lady Antonia Fraser, confirmed his death. Pinter, who had been suffering from cancer, died on Christmas Eve, according to the reports. Fraser told the Guardian newspaper: 'He was a great, and it was a privilege to live with him for over 33 years. He will never be forgotten.'

Pinter was known for such plays as 'The Birthday Party' (1957), 'The Homecoming' (1964), 'No Man's Land' (1974), 'Mountain Language' (1988), and 'Celebration' (2000). The works caught a linguistic rhythm -- the legendary 'Pinter pause' -- and an air of social unease that resonated throughout the English-speaking world and in myriad translations.

His movie credits, like his plays, span the decades and include 'The Quiller Memorandum' (1965) and 'The French Lieutenant's.