Lit riffs
Subtitle: a collection of original stories inspired by songs
By: edited by Matthew Miele ; [introduction by Neil Strauss]
Contributors: Miele, Matthew.
Publisher: Pocket Books
Published: 2004
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 420
Description: "Twenty-four celebrated writers have penned stories inspired by great songs. Just as Bangs cast new light on a Rod Stewart classic with his story "Maggie May," about a wholly unexpected connection between an impressionable young man and an aging, alcoholic hooker, the diverse stories here use songs as a springboard for a form dubbed the lit riff."--BOOK JACKET.
Table of contents: title: Maggie May (1981) / Lester Bangs; title: The National Anthem / Jonathan Lethem; title: Blue Guitar / Amanda Davis; title: Untitled / JT LeRoy; title: Dirty Mouth / Tom Perrotta; title: Hallelujah / Tanker Dane; title: Why Go / Lisa Tucker; title: All the Security Guards By Name / Aimee Bender; title: She Once Had Me / Anthony DeCurtis; title: Milestones / Hannah Tinti; title: Death in the Alt-Country / Neal Pollack; title: I Shot the Sheriff / Toure; title: A Simple Explanation of the Afterlife / Victor LaValle; title: The Eternal Helen / Heidi Julavits; title: Swampthroat / Arthur Bradford; title: Bouncing / Jennifer Belle; title: Graffiti Monk / Ernesto Quinonez; title: Smoking Inside / Darin Strauss; title: The System / Judy Budnitz; title: Four Last Songs / David Ebershoff; title: Dying on the Vine / Elissa Shappell; title: Rio / Zev Borow; title: King Heroin / Nelson George; title: The Bodies of Boys / Julianna Baggott.