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There's no way for me to answer this question without sounding like a pretentious jackass. Inevitably, when authors are asked their musical taste, they try to be as eclectic as possible ("Oh, I like John Coltrane and the Sex Pistols and Beethoven."). The problem is, I really do have fairly eclectic tastes-so if I answer honestly, I sound like one of those poseurs I hate. It's a lose-lose situation.
But here goes. My first love is progressive rock from the 1970s. I'm a big fan of Jethro Tull, ELP, Yes, Renaissance and their ilk. It's the music I grew up with. I'm also a fanatic record collector and am constantly scouring used record stores and thrift shops for albums, so I have a lot of music in a lot of different categories. As for what I listen to while writing, it depends on the day. I don't use music to set a mood; I simply listen to what I feel like hearing at the moment. I don't know if this will help, but here's a short list of my most recent CD purchases:
Something I Saw or Thought I Saw - Bill Morrissey
Time*Sex*Love - Mary Chapin Carpenter
Awakening - Joseph Curiale
Songbook - Gordon Lightfoot
The Honesty Room - Dar Williams
Life in the Tropics - The Rippingtons
Symphony No. 5 - Philip Glass
Volcano Songs - Meredith Monk
I'm a voracious reader and movie watcher, and I can't really narrow down my preferences.I'm not exactly an indiscriminate reader/viewer...but I do like an awful lot of books and movies. I will say that of non-horror authors, the ones I always buy in hardcover the instant they're released are John Irving, Anne Tyler, Jim Harrison and Richard Ford.
Don't have enough time to watch it. Too busy writing.
Little's books
The Association
The Burning
The Collection
Death Instinct (Evil Deeds in the UK)
Dispatch
Dominion (Dark Dominion in the UK)
The House (Houses in the UK)
The Ignored
The Mailman
Murmurous Haunts: The Selected Works of Bentley Little
The Policy
The Resort
The Return
The Revelation
The Store
The Summoning
The Town (Guests in the UK)
University (Night School in the UK)
The Walking
Little's Short Stories
"After Birth of a Nation"
"Against the Pale Sand"
"After - The Year In Darkness Calendar"
"And I am Here, Fighting with Ghosts"
"A Pirate's Life for Me"
"The Baby"
"The Backroom"
"The Bastille"
"The Beach"
"Big Al's"
"The Black Ladies"
"Blood"
"The Bug"
"Bumblebee"
"The Burning"
"The Car Wash"
"The Carnival"
"Children's Hospital"
"The Circle"
"Colony"
"Comes the Bad Time"
"Coming Home Again"
"Confessions of a Corporate Man"
"Deadipus Rex"
"Deadmom"
"Documented Materials"
"Estoppel"
"Even the Dead"
"Fat Lady"
"Five to Midnight, Grenada Time"
"From the Mouths of Babes"
"Full Moon on Death Row"
"The Garage Sale"
"Gingerbread"
"Happy Birthday Dear Tama"
"Hard Times"
"Hermanos De El Noche"
"I am Dead"
"I Like to Die"
"The Idol"
"In The Warehouse"
"The Janitor"
"Last Rodeo on the Circuit"
"Lethe Dreams"
"Life With Father"
"Llama"
"Loony Tune"
"The Pounding Room"
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