Keely Jobe’s Book Notes music playlist for her novel The Endling

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, Hanif Abdurraqib, Andrew Sean Greer, Roxane Gay, and many others. Keely Jobe’s novel The Endling is a surreal, unsettling, and engaging debut. Foreword Reviews wrote of the book: “An electric and unnerving novel, The Endling follows a radical feminist community’s undoing.” In her own words, here is Keely Jobe’s Book Notes music playlist for her debut novel The Endling: I remember being moved by music at a really young age. When I was around five, I used to hide behind one of the speakers in our house and listen to ‘I dreamed a dream’ from Les Misérables and cry quietly to myself. I remember kind of enjoying the total despair the music offered, and which I can now recognize was a kind of catharsis. When I was writing The Endling, music was such a…