Kate Christensen’s Book Notes music playlist for her novel Good Company

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. Kate Christensen’s novel Good Company is a compassionate and profound examination of the complexities of loss and life. Library Journal wrote of the book: “In probing misogyny’s legacy and the uneasy intimacies among women, Christensen delivers a bracing meditation on trust, aging, and the wreckage violent men leave in their wake.” In her own words, here is Kate Christensen’s Book Notes music playlist for her novel Good Company: When I was young, I used to play three or four albums in a row at top volume and sing along, also at top volume, to get out of my own head. In my twenties and early thirties, I had no idea how to handle all my inconveniently outsized emotions. Rootless and…