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Songs for Swinging Authors: Can novelists write good lyrics?

Dorian Lynskey, The Guardian, 21 January 2015

Forget moon in June. Today's pop lyrics are written by Pulitzer-winning novelists. We talk to the writers muscling into pop – and the musicians flirting with fiction.

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