Hillary Behrman’s Book Notes music playlist for her story collection Lake Effect

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. Hillary Behrman’s story collection Lake Effect is a brilliant debut with characters drawn empathetically and always surprisingly human. Kirkus wrote of the book: “Behrman masterfully crafts characters who feel believable, who garner empathy and understanding in spite of their flaws. Equally rooted in the natural and human worlds, the stories reveal the ways that healing, forgiveness, and escape can be found in the most unexpected places. Tender, messy, and supremely human.” In her own words, here is Hillary Behrman’s Book Notes music playlist for her story collection Lake Effect: The stories in Lake Effect span the decades from vinyl, 45’s and FM radio to cassette mixtapes, to CD’s, to…