![]() ![]() author, whose living room is lined with vintage records by Roxy Music and David Bowie and pencil sketches by her 16-year-old daughter, Allison.īut Fitch didn’t plan it that way. It would seem a natural second novel for the third-generation L.A. “Paint It Black,” which hits bookstores this week, follows two similarly unraveling characters haunted by memories of a loved one who went under in grisly, violent fashion. “But you can hear that she’s about to go under.” “She wants to believe in what she’s singing so badly,” said Fitch, sitting in the living room of her tastefully cluttered home in the Silver Lake hills. But the saddest song of them all, she said, was Janis Joplin’s take on Gershwin’s “Summertime.” ![]() ![]() It was a mix tape of what she called “the saddest songs in the world,” full of morose folk musings by Leonard Cohen and Joni Mitchell. WHILE Janet Fitch worked on the follow-up to her multimillion-selling debut novel and Oprah’s Book Club pick “White Oleander,” she listened to a particular cassette over and over again. ![]()
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