Music Lust: Recommended Listening for Every Mood, Moment, and Reason is a book written by Nic Harcourt

Nic Harcourt

Nic Harcourt was, most recently, the Music Director for Santa Monica, California-based radio station KCRW. Before joining KCRW, Harcourt worked for eight years as a news director and music director at radio station WDST in Woodstock, New York...

, the music director for the Santa Monica, California

Santa Monica, California

Santa Monica is a beachfront city in western Los Angeles County, California, US. Situated on Santa Monica Bay, it is surrounded on three sides by the city of Los Angeles — Pacific Palisades on the northwest, Brentwood on the north, West Los Angeles on the northeast, Mar Vista on the east, and...

, radio station KCRW

KCRW

KCRW is a public radio station broadcasting from the campus of Santa Monica College in Santa Monica, California, carrying a mix of National Public Radio news, talk radio and freeform music format. The general manager of KCRW is Jennifer Ferro...

.

The book, featuring selections gathered from Harcourt's extensive personal musical knowledge, comprises numerous essays on various genres and movements, and Harcourt includes several esoteric and original categories, as well.

Music Lust takes its basic premise from Book Lust

Book Lust

Book Lust: Recommended Reading for Every Mood, Moment, and Reason was written by Nancy Pearl, former Executive Director of the Washington Center for the Book and inspiration for the Librarian action figure....

, which was written by librarian Nancy Pearl

Nancy Pearl

Nancy Pearl is an American librarian, best-selling author, literary critic and was, until August 2004, the Executive Director of the Washington Center for the Book at Seattle Public Library...

and includes literary selections and recommendations.

Music Lust was published in 2005 by Sasquatch Books with ISBN 1-57061-437-7.

External links

• NPR interview
• NPR feature