Music in Fiction slideshow for Summer Reading

1. Music in
Fiction

2. Rocker Bruce
Springsteen’s
song “The Ghost
of Tom Joad” was
inspired by the
hero of John
Steinbeck’s novel
The Grapes of
Wrath.

3. Rewind…
The title of the
novel Wolf in
White Van by John
Darnielle comes
from the lyrics of a
rock song played
backwards.

4. David Bowie’s
classic album
Diamond Dogs is
set in a largely
ruined dystopian
future and was
partly inspired by
George Orwell’s
classic 1984.

5. When Michael
Connelly writes a Harry
Bosch novel he is
usually listening to
jazz. “Invariably,” he
says, “the music I am
listening to ends up in
the books—usually on
Harry Bosch’s CD
player”.

6. Ernest
Hemingway’s
mother forced all of
her children to play
an instrument;
young Ernest grew
up learning
the cello.

7. Down the rabbit hole:
The psychedelic
rock song “White
Rabbit” by Jefferson
Airplane draws
heavily on Lewis
Carroll’s Alice’s
Adventures in
Wonderland.

8. The structure of A
Clockwork Orange
by Anthony
Burgess, which is
divided into three
parts of seven
chapters each, is
patterned after an
operatic aria.

9. Nick Hornby's
novel High
Fidelity is almost
all about music.
The book’s title
is also the title of
a song by Elvis
Costello.

10. English writer
Charles Dickens
(A Christmas
Carol, A Tale of
Two Cities, Great
Expectations)
played the
accordion.