Jocelyn Cullity’s Book Notes music playlist for her novel The Nurse at Baker Hospital

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. Jocelyn Cullity’s novel The Nurse at Baker Hospital is a compelling historical literary mystery. Kirkus wrote of the book: “An engrossing story that exposes past medical fraud at an astonishing level.” In her own words, here is Jocelyn Cullity’s Book Notes music playlist for her novel The Nurse at Baker Hospital: Set in 1939 and based on a true story, The Nurse at Baker Hospital follows a young nurse who takes a job at Norman Baker’s infamous cancer hospital in Eureka Springs, Arkansas. Although I didn’t listen to Billie Holiday while writing the novel, her music haunted my imagination throughout the process. As I researched the era, Holiday’s voice embodied the contradictions at…