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Thursday, May 14, 2026

Music Exploder – Emma Straub


‘69 Love Songs’ by The Magnetic Fields

My visitor at the moment is the bestselling creator Emma Straub. Her books embrace This Time Tomorrow, Fashionable Lovers, The Vacationers, and extra. And along with her husband, Michael Fusco, she co-owns the gorgeous Brooklyn bookstore Books Are Magic.

I’m so thrilled to have her on as a result of, not solely is she an exquisite author, however Key Change is a collection about music fandom and identification. And Emma’s latest novel American Fantasy can be about music fandom and identification. That story is about on a cruise ship centered round a nineties boy band and their followers.

However at the moment, Emma’s going to inform me her story about her personal relationship with the music of the Magnetic Fields. Stephin Merritt from the Magnetic Fields was simply named one of many biggest dwelling American songwriters by the New York Occasions, and Emma’s introduction to their music was their 1999 triple album, 69 Love Songs.

You should buy or stream 69 Love Songs by the Magnetic Fields right here.

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“Epitaph For My Coronary heart,” “Lengthy-Forgotten Fairytale,” “Grand Canyon,” “The E book of Love,” “It’s Solely Time,” and “Strolling My Gargoyle”
Emma Straub’s Magnetic Fields tour weblog

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