Kyle McCarthy’s Book Notes music playlist for her novel Immersions

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. Kyle McCarthy’s Immersions is one of the year’s most intense novels. Publishers Weekly wrote of the book: “A tender yet tense story of estranged sisters who grew up studying ballet . . . McCarthy writes astutely about dance as a double-edged sword that impassions the sisters but also damages them. The result is magnetic.” In her own words, here is Kyle McCarthy’s Book Notes music playlist for her novel Immersions: As soon as I started writing Immersions I knew the bad boy of the novel would be named Johnny. All bad boys are named Johnny: all drifters, no-good charmers, and sweet, shiftless men. Here, I imagine a scene not included in the novel: Johnny driving home from the city, thinking about…