Natalie Adler’s Book Notes music playlist for her novel Waiting on a Friend

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. Natalie Adler’s Book Notes debut novel Waiting on a Friend is an inventive and poignant take on the ghost story. The Los Angeles Review of Books wrote of the book: “[A] brilliant twist on the supernatural genre . . . Waiting on a Friend is a horror story where all the monsters are real—but so are the heroes. Even as they’ve disappeared, Renata keeps the memory of her lost friends, of their lost world, alive. In an era obsessed with optimization and monetization, Natalie Adler reminds us that living as your authentic self, in community with others . . . is a triumphant and deeply pleasurable form of resistance” In her own words, here is Natalie Adler’s Book Notes music playlist for her debut…