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
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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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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