Homes published the first chapter of her 1999 novel Music for Torching as a short story in The New Yorker. The title comes from a 1955 jazz album of the same name, recorded by singer Billie Holiday. It features some characters who appeared in short stories of her first collection, The Safety of Objects (1990).
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