Heavy Rotation

<p>Colm Tóibín on Joni Mitchell - James Wood on The Who - Stacey D'Erasmo on Kate Bush - Daniel Handler on Eurythmics - Lisa Dierbeck on the Pretenders - Clifford Chase on the B-52s . . . and other writers on the soundtracks of their lives</p><p>In <em>Heavy Rotation</em> twenty of our most acclaimed contemporary writers pay homage to the record albums that inspired them. Benjamin Kunkel remembers how the Smiths' <em>Queen Is Dead</em> transformed him into an adolescent Anglophile. Pankaj Mishra describes how a bootleg cassette of ABBA's <em>Super Trouper</em> evoked a world far from his small Indian village. Kate Christensen relives her years as an aspiring novelist in Brooklyn listening to Rickie Lee Jones's <em>Flying Cowboys</em>. And Joshua Ferris recalls his head-banging passion for Pearl Jam's <em>Ten</em>. </p><p>Exploring music from the Talking Heads to the <em>Hedwig and the Angry Inch</em> soundtrack this extraordinary anthology is a moving funny uplifting and unforgettable celebration of the unique and essential relationship between life and music. </p>