A drinking playlist. A brilliant idea, or the brilliantest idea? Lori, over at The Next Big Book Blog was kind enough to have be back after my August stop at her blog when I read my story "Petty Injuries." This time, she asked me to supply a drinking playlist, which is exactly what it sounds like: what to drink to elicit or compliment specific moods, specifically with regards to books. I outline for you a playlist according to my novel, I Didn't Mean to be Kevin.
A couple of nights ago I was invited to be the interviewee on an episode of the burgeoning and fun Books and Booze podcast. This, episode 4, has me chatting books with Renee Pickup and Dakota Taylor, sans books or booze in my hands, unfortunately. We talk a lot about my books, of course, but we get larger issues such as the implied cultural relevance of books that we (Renee, Dakota, and myself) don’t necessarily assume are good (ahem…50 Shades of Grey…) but must strike a unique chord if they are selling so well. We don’t always have to agree with cultural shifts, I suppose. But we’re all interested, it would seem, in the idea that mass consumption of a product must mean that product has some relevance beyond the aesthetic (but if now, doesn’t wide aesthetic appeal still say something about a culture). Anyway, it was tremendous fun. Thanks…