In the Book Notes series, authors create and discuss a music playlist that relates in some way to their recently published book.

Previous contributors include Bret Easton Ellis, Kate Christensen, Kevin Brockmeier, George Pelecanos, Dana Spiotta, Amy Bloom, David Peace, Myla Goldberg, and many others.

Joe Woodward’s Alive Inside the Wreck is the first biography of Nathanael West in over 40 years, and creates a vivid portrait of the man, the writer, and his work.

Read his playlist in Largehearted Boy.