BEHIND THE SONG PLAYLIST

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The Suburbs           

Artist: Arcade Fire             

Inspired David Arnold’s short story Suburbiana (or, The Return of Super Frog)       

 

Miss Atomic Bomb
Artist: The Killers    

Inspired Anthony Breznican’s short story Miss Atomic Bomb

 

Cold Beverage
Artist: G. Love & Special Sauce                      

Inspired G. Love’s personal essay Cold Beverage the song I wrote that changed my life

 

Hotel California
Artist:The Eagles    

Inspired Ellen Hopkins’ short story Tiffany Twisted

 

Planting Trees (video coming soon)
Artist: James Howe and Mark Davis              

Inspired James Howe’s personal essay How Miracles Begin

 

Somewhere (A Place for Us)
Artist: Music by Leonard Bernstein; lyrics by Stephen Sondheim

Inspired Beth Kephart’s personal essay The Opposite of Ordinary

 

Wonderwall
Artist: Oasis            

Inspired Elisa Ludwig’s short story About You Now

 

Ballad of a Thin Man
Artist: Bob Dylan    

Inspired Jonathan Maberry’s personal essay

You Know Something’s Happening Here (But You Don’t Know What it is)

 

October Song
Artist: Amy Winehouse 

Inspired Donn Thompson Morelli aka “DONN T’s” short story Time to Soar

 

Somewhere Only We Know
Artist: Keane                 

Inspired E.C. Myers’ short story City Girl

 

It Hurts
Artist: 2NE1             

Inspired Ellen Oh’s short story Second Chances

 

Dancing Nancies
Artist: Dave Matthews Band                         

Inspired Tiffany Schmidt’s short story Anyone Other Than Me

 

The Middle
Artist: Jimmy Eat World 

Inspired Suzanne Young’s short story The Ride

 

All the Lights Went Out
Artist: Marcy Playground   

Inspired K.M. Walton’s short story Doomed?

 

1 Thing
Artist: Ameriie           

Ameriie wrote the foreword for the anthology