Emmalea Russo’s Book Notes music playlist for her novel The Moon Papers

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. Emmalea Russo’s novel The Moon Papers is one of the year’s most thought-provoking novels. Foreword Reviews wrote of the book: “A surprising science fiction novel . . . beguiling.” In her own words, here is Emmalea Russo’s Book Notes music playlist for her novel The Moon Papers: The Moon Papers is a summer novel. It opens in June and closes in late August. As the hot and delirious days pass, we move closer and closer to the launch of a mysterious new luminary into Earth’s atmosphere: Moon2. A kind of momentum builds. Things fall apart. Minds melt. The book moves between the east and west coasts, digital mischief, online forums, conspiracy theories, bat infestations, surveillance…