Norah Labiner’s Book Notes music playlist for her novel Morocco

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. Norah Labiner’s novel Morocco is a compelling modern reimagining of Washington Square by Henry James. Publishers Weekly wrote of the book: “This is subtle but spectacular.” In her own words, here is Norah Labiner’s Book Notes music playlist for her novel Morocco: The story started, if you can believe it, at a dinner party some long-ago evening, when by gaslight, just before the coffee—an actress told him of a rather plain, but fabulously wealthy young heiress and the fortune hunter who was pursuing the girl, to the great displeasure of her father, Dr.—. You remember him, don’t you, Henry? What Henry James remembered or did not is lost to history. It remains only that he was taken…