Saturday, September 06, 2014

The best mixtapes in fiction

Have you ever wanted to listen to a song mentioned in a novel? Now you can enjoy ‘fictional’ mixtapes, as authors have begun creating their character’s playlists for their readers to listen to

Friday 5 September 2014 -   
A still from the the film adaptation of David Nicholls’s book, One Day. The author put together a playlist based on the mixtapes made by Emma, a character in the book. Photograph: Allstar/FOCUS FEATURES/Sportsphoto Ltd./Allstar
It may not be the most obvious reaction, granted, but my first thought when hearing news that David Nicholls had written Us, his follow-up to his bestselling novel One Day, wasn’t about his knack for “unputdownability” or his enviable ability to write novels that cry out to be adapted into blockbuster movies. No – my first thought was: “Ooh, I wonder if it’ll have a good mixtape.”
Inspired by the compilation tapes his character Emma Morley makes for Dexter Mayhew in One Day, author Nicholls decided to put together a full playlist of the mixtapes, imagining what other tracks Emma (who has “far better taste than Dexter”) would have included
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