Adam O’Fallon Price’s Book Notes music playlist for his story collection Objects of Desire

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. Awarded the Autumn House Press Fiction Prize (judged by Alexandra Kleeman), Adam O’Fallon Price’s Objects of Desire offers stories of unforgettable characters at dark crossroads in their lives. Alexandra Kleeman wrote of the book: “Tremendously funny and deeply felt, Adam O’Fallon Price channels the voices of characters suspended between crisis and catharsis, hovering somewhere above rock bottom, wandering the maze of their own desires and dreams. In their tenderness, these stories demonstrate the special power of the short form to hoist up the heaviness of life, to give lightness and wit to what would drag us down. But in their pathos, the struggle of Price’s characters to see…