Five titles about the power of music in fiction

Emme Lund is an author living and writing in Portland, Oregon. She has an MFA from Mills College. Her work has appeared in Electric Literature, Time, The Rumpus, Paper Darts, and many more. In 2019, she was awarded an Oregon Literary Arts Fellowship in Fiction.

The Boy with a Bird in His Chest is Lund's first novel.

At Lit Hub she tagged five "books I’ve read recently that speak to the power of music and dancing in our lives," including:

C.R. Foster, Shine of the Ever

C.R. Foster’s collection of short stories is described as “a literary mixtape of queer voices out of 1990s Portland,” so of course grunge, punk, and indie permeate its pages. The collection deals with queer love, addiction, and tenderness in a raw way, while remaining honest and funny throughout. Music is everywhere in the book—the reader is clued into the music playing in the background so often, we can hear the soundtrack to these stories.

Read about the other entries on the list.

--Marshal Zeringue