Episode 113 || A Literary Mixtape

Chris and Annie try to bring this weekend's Word of [South] festival to you! In miniature concept, anyway. How does one go about pairing books and music? Also, "Skeezy John Mayer," Annie feels self-conscious about her [good] taste, and Chris takes his philosophy outfits out of storage. 

> Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's We Should All Be Feminists + Solange's A Seat at the Table
> F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby + The Postal Service's Give Up
> Shauna Niequist's Bittersweet + Ellie Holcomb's Red Sea Road (BONUS--or Sufjan Stevens's Seven Swans OR Vampire Weekend's Modern Vampires of the City)
> Albert Camus's The Myth of Sisyphus + Bright Eyes's The People's Key or The Decemberists's The King is Dead
> J. D. Vance's Hillbilly Elegy + I'm With Her
> Arcade Fire's The Suburbs + literally any coming of age novel
> Aldous Huxley's Brave New World + Childish Gambino's Because the Internet
> Wiley Cash + Birdtalker's Just This
> Donna Tartt's The Secret History + Aronofsky's Black Swan
> James McBride + Leon Bridges's Coming Home
> David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas + Fleetwood Mac's Rumours
> Emma Straub's Modern Lovers + John Mayer

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