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In the Book Notes<\/a> series, authors create and discuss a music playlist that relates in some way to their recently published book.<\/em><\/p>\n

Previous contributors include Jesmyn Ward<\/a>, Lauren Groff<\/a>, Bret Easton Ellis<\/a>, Celeste Ng<\/a>, T.C. Boyle<\/a>, Dana Spiotta<\/a>, Amy Bloom,<\/a> Aimee Bender<\/a>, Roxane Gay,<\/a> and many others.<\/em><\/p>\n

Callan Wink\u2019s novel <\/a>Beartooth<\/a> is magnificently dark and resonant.<\/em><\/p>\n

Publishers Weekly wrote of the book:<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cIn this transportive novel of two brothers living on the margins in the Beartooth mountains of Montana . . . Wink mesmerizes with his descriptions of nature and the men\u2019s survival skills, and he successfully portrays the brothers\u2019 humanity in their dance between struggling for dominance and wanting to support each other.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

In his own words, here is Callan Wink\u2019s Book Notes<\/a> music playlist for his novel <\/a><\/em><\/strong>Beartooth<\/strong><\/em><\/a>:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

I always listen to music when I write. My gears turn slowly enough as it is, the thought of spending two hours staring at a blank screen, in silence, is too painful to consider. Often the genre of music I listen to while writing doesn\u2019t exactly mesh with the subject matter. My novel Beartooth<\/em> is set in rural Montana and centers around two brothers facing financial hardships after the death of their father. After getting approached by a shadowy figure named The Scot, they set out on a risky (and illegal) poaching mission into Yellowstone Park. Premise thus established; it might surprise some people to know that I wrote a good chunk of this book while listening to classic Studio One reggae\/rocksteady playlists on YouTube. Does the music inform the writing? Maybe not. I don\u2019t really know. That being said, in compiling this list, I wanted to come up with songs that fit the world and worldview of Thad and Hazen, the two desperate brothers at the heart of Beartooth<\/em>\u2019s plot. Some of the songs actually appear in the book, others just compliment the vibe.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Remember jukeboxes? Not those TouchTune things with unlimited options that bars have these days, real jukeboxes where you put in the quarters and punch in the numbers. Twenty years ago, most watering holes in Montana still had a jukebox. Some bars leaned more country, some more rock, some more pop. Every bar had an identity and a large part of that was based upon the jukebox and the songs it played. Anyway, I miss jukeboxes. In my dreams, there still exists a bar where the pool is free, a bottle of Coors is a buck-fifty, and the jukebox gives you three plays for a dollar. In that dream, the jukebox has these songs.<\/p>\n

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