layers of a novel are built exactly like the layers in recorded music. When you hear a finished song, everything melds into a single, transcendent experience. But that’s not how it was recorded. Back in the studio, each track was created separately, beginning with the drums, the baseline, the foundation, and then each subsequent track was created so that when it was laid in it melded with the others. And the last track? The vocals, the voice, the thing we remember most is, as it turns out, the last track to be added, only after all the tracks beneath it have been expertly mixed into the
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