Music in This Book Does Not Exist

Tuesday night, I went to see Best Coast perform at the Grog Shop in Cleveland Heights.The occasion got me thinking a little bit about the music I referenced in This Book Does Not Exist. Best Coast's debut full length Crazy For You is one of my favorite records of this year, and if I had been writing the first draft of the novel this summer as opposed to the winter of 2008-9, I probably would have mentioned it to some extent. Crazy For You is a bizarre sort of "break up record," as most of it ...