Ru Marshall’s Book Notes music playlist for their book American Trickster

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. Ru Marshall’s American Trickster is an exhaustively researched and fascinating biography of Carlos Castaneda. Booklist wrote of the book: “Marshall reveals in this detailed, well-documented, and revelatory biography, early suspicions . . . that Castaneda’s writings are mostly, if not entirely, fictional.” In their own words, here is Ru Marshall’s Book Notes music playlist for their book American Trickster: I often listen to music while I write—but not the music I’ve included in this playlist (almost all of which would be far too distracting). The songs I’ve chosen are those which I’ve imagined appearing on a fantasy soundtrack for an imagine film about Carlos Castaneda, songs that evoke…