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Jeffrey Eugenides

Following our ‘Music and Memory’ event, part of the launch of Granta 111: Going Back, we have been asking writers to choose five songs or pieces of music which are important to them, and which bring back particularly salient memories.

Jeffrey Eugenides

Eminem

1. Ella Fitzgerald: ‘They Can’t Take That Away From Me’
2. The Rolling Stones: ‘Memory Motel’
3. Emmy Lou Harris: ‘Wayfaring Stranger’
4. Bob Dylan: ‘Tangled up in Blue’
5. Eminem: ‘Cleaning Out My Closet’