Tom Perrotta

Some of today's leading young authors contribute a vast array of short stories all inspired by popular songs, in an anthology featuring selections by Julianna Baggot, David Ebershoff, Amanda Davis, Neal Pollack, Tom Perrotta, Rebecca Wells, Nelson George, Greil Marcus, Ernesto Quinonez, J. T. Leroy, and others. Original.

Everything is going pretty well for Dave Raymond. He's 31, but he still feels young. He's playing guitar with the Wishbones, a New Jersey wedding band, and while it isn't exactly the Big Time, it is music. He has a roof over his head...well, it's his parents' roof, but they don't hassle him much. Life isn't perfect. But it isn't bad. Not bad at all. But then he has to blow it all by proposing to his girlfriend.