The end-cap of the week award goes to 24 year old Martha Pettite of San Francisco’s The Booksmith. Her display, titled “My Awesome Literary Mix CD,” pairs 18 literary works with a musical counterpart.
Pettite says she was “inspired by the song Wuthering Heights by Kate Bush; Todd (also a Booksmith staffer) and I were discussing what a great song it is and I relayed the story of a friend who also loved the song but had no clue that it was a reference to Emile Bronte’s novel”
1.”Killing an Arab” –The Cure (The Stranger by Albert Camus)
2. “Tear in Your Hand”-Tori Amos (Sandman series by Neil Gaiman)
3.”Wuthering Heights”-Kate Bush (Wuthering Heights by Emile Bronte)
4.“Ghost of Tom Joad”-Bruce Springsteen (Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck)
5.”Paranoid Android”-Radiohead (Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams)
6.”Mr.Tambourine Man”-Bob Dylan (Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson)*
7.”Satellite of Love”-Lou Reed (Ghostwritten by David Mitchell)*
8.”The River”-P.J. Harvey (The River by Flannery O’Connor)
9.”Myla Goldberg”-The Decemberists (Bee Season by Myla Goldberg)
10.”Ground Beneath Her Feet”-U2 (Ground Beneath Her Feet by Salman Rushdie)
11.”Norwegian Wood”-The Beatles (Norwegian Wood by Hakuri Murakami)
12.”Disorder”-Joy Division (Crash by J.G. Ballard)
13.”Girlfriend in a Coma”-The Smiths (Girlfriend in a Coma by Douglas Coupland)
14.”La Pastie de la Bourgeoisie”-Belle & Sebastian (Catcher in the Rye by J.G. Salinger)
15.”Holland 1945”-Neutral Milk Hotel (Diary of Anne Frank by Anne Frank)
16.”Alice”-Tom Waits (Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll)
17.”Little Green”-Joni Mitchell (Who Will Run the Frog Hospital? by Lorrie Moore)
18.”My Vien Ilin”-Ted Leo & the Pharmacists (The Odyssey by Homer)