Lit riffs :  a collection of original stories inspired by songs / 
edited by Matthew Miele ; [introduction by Neil Strauss]. 
 - New York :  Pocket Books/MTV Books,  [2004] 
 - x, 420 p. ;  18 cm. 
<br/><br/>Maggie May (1981) / Lester Bangs -- The National Anthem / Jonathan Lethem -- Blue Guitar / Amanda Davis -- Untitled / JT LeRoy -- Dirty Mouth / Tom Perrotta -- Hallelujah / Tanker Dane -- Why Go / Lisa Tucker -- All the Security Guards By Name / Aimee Bender -- She Once Had Me / Anthony DeCurtis -- Milestones / Hannah Tinti -- Death in the Alt-Country / Neal Pollack -- I Shot the Sheriff / Toure -- A Simple Explanation of the Afterlife / Victor LaValle -- The Eternal Helen / Heidi Julavits -- Swampthroat / Arthur Bradford -- Bouncing / Jennifer Belle -- Graffiti Monk / Ernesto Quinonez -- Smoking Inside / Darin Strauss -- The System / Judy Budnitz -- Four Last Songs / David Ebershoff -- Dying on the Vine / Elissa Shappell -- Rio / Zev Borow -- King Heroin / Nelson George -- The Bodies of Boys / Julianna Baggott. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0743470265 (pbk.) 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Short stories, American.<br/>American fiction--21st century.<br/>Music--Fiction.<br/>Literatura americana.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PS 648  / L775 2004