39 mixes taggedliterature

As Carmen leaves us to travel to distant planets we'd like her to report back her findings.

For those who need a little boost to help their creative juices flow

Songs about books, for the indie librarian in us all. Fourteen tracks, including songs by Fleet Foxes, David Bowie and Sufjan Stevens.

Ink runs from the corners of my mouth.
There is no happiness like mine.
I have been eating poetry.
-Mark Strand, Eating Poetry (1991)

Nothing beats hearing poets read their own works. :)

The mix from the book. Seriously the best mix crafted by a fictional teenager.

"I had an amazing feeling when I finally held the tape in my hand. I just thought to myself that in the palm of my hand, there was this one tape that had all of these memories and feelings and great joy and sadness. Right there in the palm of my hand."

The Great Gatsby
Gatsby and Daisy's journey, using music

i found Humbert Humbert's ipod... ;)

"i loved you. i was a pentapod monster, but i loved you. i was despicable and brutal, and turpid, and everything, mais je t'aimais, je t'aimais." - Vladimir Nabokov

A mix of Japanese stories, poems, and other literature (Sherlock Holmes!) read to you in Japanese to fuel your language learning. Listen while you work on other things! Immerse yourself!

In this world, shipmates, sin that pays its way can travel freely, and without a passport; whereas Virtue, if a pauper, is stopped at all frontiers.

I love books, I love music. Here's to combining the two!

A mix of Japanese stories, poems, and other literature (Sherlock Holmes!) read to you in Japanese to fuel your language learning. Listen while you work on other things! Immerse yourself!

Twelve tracks to accompany George Orwell's novel, including music by Nine Inch Nails, Mogwai, and I Love You But I've Chosen Darkness.

"War is peace. Slavery is freedom. Ignorance is strength."