Laurie Petrou’s Book Notes music playlist for her novel The Rayburn Affair

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. Laurie Petrou’s novel The Rayburn Affair is a compelling novel of art, friendship, and ambition. Laurie Elizabeth Flynn wrote of the book: “A delicious, addictive cocktail of intimacy and ambition.” In her own words, here is Laurie Petrou’s Book Notes music playlist for her novel The Rayburn Affair: I love an Ontario cottage. I grew up going to camp and visiting the cottages of friends during long, lazy summers in those preteen years before jobs and relationships gobbled up free time. My memories are of screaming as we jumped in the lake, piles of Archie comics, dark wooden cupboards, pilled curtains, and lying on the dock with my girlfriends. As an adult, cottages contain the same…