David Gutowski

I read and write and listen to music. LHB is my website. Words at @longreads, @mcsweeneys, @PBS,...

[David Gutowski @largeheartedboy]

Today is @largeheartedboy's 21st birthday. Thank you to everyone who has contributed to the site's success. Writers, musicians, booksellers, friends, readers, and publishers have all been essential parts of the books + music equation (that equals love) https://t.co/NKglegrwOG

[David Gutowski @largeheartedboy]

"Like good poetry, this song is slick, shimmering, heavy, metal, and reflective."

Nicholas Goodly shared a playlist for his poetry collection Star Power at @largeheartedboy https://t.co/Ndf1VGxMpz

[David Gutowski @largeheartedboy]

"Music is always playing on the car radio, in roadside diners, on clunky boom boxes, and in the heads of many of the characters, giving context and texture to their lives.

Hillary Behrman shared a playlist for her debut story collection Lake Effect https://t.co/JlWGka1j3b

[David Gutowski @largeheartedboy]

"To write this novel, I built out a four-hour-long playlist that tracked the plot, beat for beat. Musical cues helped me escalate tension, or keep the energy at a simmer..."

Natalie Adler shared a playlist for her debut novel Waiting on a Friend https://t.co/GwjxAXKMaL

[David Gutowski @largeheartedboy]

"I remember lying back on my bed...listening to Simon and Garfunkel...and thinking, If I could express myself even a fraction as well as these musicians express themselves, I could survive."

Nin Andrews shared a playlist for her memoir Son of a Bird https://t.co/RA8znOLdpG

[David Gutowski @largeheartedboy]

"If you play these LPs while serving people huge amounts of good food and wine, guests cannot but let their hair down and disport themselves."

Cat Fitzpatrick shared a playlist for her novel in verse The Dinner Party at @largeheartedboy https://t.co/xHbVm987nM @7StoriesPress

[David Gutowski @largeheartedboy]

"Receiving a mixtape was the highest honor; making one, the greatest responsibility."

Hugh Ryan shared a playlist for his book, My Bad: A Personal History of the Queer Nineties and Beyond at @largeheartedboy https://t.co/Dq5ISF5yxY

[David Gutowski @largeheartedboy]

"In true '90s fashion, at one point, I sent him a mix tape."

Amy Crider shared a playlist for her memoir Catching an Orange at @largeheartedboy https://t.co/ZdploI1BSS

[David Gutowski @largeheartedboy]

"I listened to so much music as I wrote. I love music. And I included a lot of it, knitted into the writing. I can't imagine writing novels without music, honestly."

Caitlin Shetterly shared a playlist for her novel The Gulf of Lions at @largeheartedboy https://t.co/8b6lK2Dof2

[David Gutowski @largeheartedboy]

"This is a set list of brokenhearted love songs, so listen to it when you want exactly that"

@Rebecca Chace shared a playlist for her novel Talking to the Wolf at @largeheartedboy https://t.co/VR0YLSFTTo

[David Gutowski @largeheartedboy]

"...when you’re looking for a certain entry point to your writing, a tone or mood or feeling (grim in this case), then it's nice to have a song that can ease you into that mood as into a warm bath."

Nick Cutter shared a playlist for his novel The Dorians https://t.co/mfy9BR7f3j

[David Gutowski @largeheartedboy]

"In the days after I came out, I would sit in my small house, cut off from everything...Music brought me a lot of deep healing as I learned how to be okay."

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[David Gutowski @largeheartedboy]

"...the protagonist is a music lover, a concert goer, and music of a certain kind, in a certain register, can be imagined as floating around the edges of the story."

Eric Beck Rubin shared a playlist for his novel Ten Clear Days at @largeheartedboy https://t.co/zYJKUhh0sh

[David Gutowski @largeheartedboy]

"At the keyboard in the morning, I feel the pressure to perform. To sing. I love a musical sentence."

TJ Fuller shared a playlist for his story collection Some Stupid Glow at @largeheartedboy https://t.co/hfgESW1MVc

[David Gutowski @largeheartedboy]

"Much of my book Afternoon Hours of a Hermit concerns memory and the techniques of fiction which I have tried to pass onto my students."

Patrick Cottrell shared a playlist for his novel Afternoon Hours of a Hermit at @largeheartedboy https://t.co/lio2ZUj7tk

[David Gutowski @largeheartedboy]

"The Coffin of Honey has an internationalist point of view, and this playlist inevitably reflects that."

Geoffrey D. Morrison shared a playlist for is novel The Coffin of Honey at @largeheartedboy https://t.co/FRYc8g1u4o @coachhousebooks

[David Gutowski @largeheartedboy]

"The playlist features songs from seductive Haiti, sexy and spiritual 1950s New York City and festive and soulful Brazil..."

Dimitry Elias Léger shared a playlist for his novel Death of the Soccer God at @largeheartedboy https://t.co/wKf8CR0a5j

[David Gutowski @largeheartedboy]

"I’ve always used music as a crowbar to access emotions that I usually hide from myself."

Sam Beckbessinger shared a playlist for her debut novel Femme Feral at @largeheartedboy https://t.co/uoZZJSIXni

[David Gutowski @largeheartedboy]

"The book is full of songs playing in cafés..., on tape decks in kitchens and living-room turntables, broadcast on pirate radio or performed by punk bands in sweaty, crowded rooms."

Jeff Miller shared a playlist for his novel Temporary Palaces https://t.co/DOgsVFE5KL

[David Gutowski @largeheartedboy]

"In 2017, when I was struggling daily with the growing desire to die, I made a playlist. The playlist was thirty-one songs, all by the Mountain Goats, titled simply: stay alive."

Madeline Vosch shared a playlist for her memoir Undead at @largeheartedboy https://t.co/NFSOrX3I6S

[David Gutowski @largeheartedboy]

“Music plays throughout my novel, Hidden River...its emotional heart is lodged squarely in the mid ‘80s to early ‘90s, when any Gen Xer could tell you: music was life.”

Sara Lippmann shared a playlist for her novel Hidden River at @largeheartedboy https://t.co/3wdlxzmzmD