Devyn Defoe’s Book Notes music playlist for her novel Burnside

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. Devyn Defoe’s novel Burnside is a brilliant surreal and satirical debut. The Chicago Review of Books wrote of the book: “This Lynchian nightmare is stitched tightly with the horrors of American life and the numbness it has left us with. Strange, surreal, and inescapably intriguing, reading Burnside brings the ideal level of acidity and satire.” In her own words, here is Devyn Defoe’s Book Notes music playlist for her debut novel Burnside: Burnside is a story of suspicion, paranoia, and toxic friendship during a prickly summer of fires and death in the California central valley. My playlists shift a lot through the duration of a project. Some songs were indispensable at the start,…