Alicia Kennedy’s Book Notes music playlist for her book On Eating

In the Book Notes series, authors create and discuss a music playlist that relates in some way to their recently published book. Previous contributors include Jesmyn Ward, Lauren Groff, Bret Easton Ellis, Celeste Ng, T.C. Boyle, Dana Spiotta, Amy Bloom, Aimee Bender, Roxane Gay, and many others. Alicia Kennedy’s memoir On Eating is a thoughtful and wise meditation on a life through the lens of food. The Atlantic wrote of the book: “One of the pleasures of reading this book is that it prompts us to think about nature’s variety and abundance, and about how that abundance can show up on our plates.” In her own words, here is Alicia Kennedy’s Book Notes music playlist for her book On Eating: On Eating is a memoir of my life and appetite, along with the political and cultural stories around the food. It has a 75-song “soundtrack” and these are 11 selections that correlate to different times (I’ve always thought 11 songs is the right number for an album). I have a DJ past, and the…