Reading playlist Lolita
The sick shimmer of beauty weaponised — glamour as the oldest form of cruelty.
Artists and music for this book
Bill Evans
Bernard Herrmann
Chet Baker
Ennio Morricone
Dmitri Shostakovich
Why this music
The music stays hushed and ornate, like a lie told in perfect sentences — chamber strings and cool jazz that sounds too elegant for what it accompanies. Period-accurate 1950s cool and melancholy piano keep the American highway world alive beneath the obsession. As the glamour thins and the horror surfaces, the harmonies darken without ever becoming loud.