Literary References
Mike Kinsella tends to reference literature often in his writing.
- In American Football's "Letters and Packages," he references For Esmé – with Love and Squalor, a J. D. Salinger short story.
- In the Owen album title, "No Good For No One Now," he is probably making a reference to a line from Gazebo, a Raymond Carver short story.
- Likewise, in Owen's "Gazebo" he suggests he is reading Raymond Carver's What We Talk About When We Talk About Love, and makes another reference to the short story Gazebo, with both the story and the song ending in the line "In this too, she was right."
- In Owen's "The Sad Waltzes of Pietro Crespi," he references Gabriel García Márquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude. The song "Bag of Bones" also likely references this work.
- In Owen's "I Woke Up Today," he references T. S. Eliot's poem "The Hollow Men."
- Owen's "Playing Possum For a Peak," contains the line "A local pharmacist and his wife," which is found within "The Unbearable Lightness of Being," a novel by Milan Kundera.
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