These songs sit well within their world of six-way attraction, ambition, temptation, frustration, and lust. Those two are surrounded by friends and lovers, all in competition with each other. Hex follows Nell, an expelled PhD candidate working with poisonous plants, and her spiritual addiction to Joan, her former adviser. Their overarching themes are in line with the book’s, namely devotion, obsession, wonder, affection that takes physical and edible forms, and a permeating but loose mystical atmosphere. These songs, ranging from contemporary narrative-ballads to 80s Euro-pop singles to Bollywood to Sesame Street to musicals to medieval, informed and appear in the novel Hex. In her own words, here is Rebecca Dinerstein Knight's Book Notes music playlist for her novel Hex: Dinerstein Knight paints a withering portrait of this web of toxic romances, and of the excesses of academia, while illustrating how both the heart and the mind can be broken and reshaped by changing circumstances."
Rebecca Dinerstein Knight's novel Hex is moving, funny, and enchanting. Boyle, Dana Spiotta, Amy Bloom, Aimee Bender, Roxane Gay, and many others. Previous contributors include Jesmyn Ward, Lauren Groff, Bret Easton Ellis, Celeste Ng, T.C. In the Book Notes series, authors create and discuss a music playlist that relates in some way to their recently published book.
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