Portland writer Mike Daily marries fiction and music with his rock band, O’Grady—literally. We should have seen this coming; after all, his first book, Alarm, is a lyric novel  complete with CDs of his excerpts set to music. His newest artistic venture is a song, “The Life & Times of Major Fiction.” The lyrics are titles from Fiction Collective Two, “an author-run, not-for-profit publisher of artistically adventurous, non-traditional fiction.” You must hear the song. Really, you must.

Also, be sure to thoroughly browse around the Fiction Collective Two website for more summer reading ideas.

Click here and scroll down to view the lyrics of "The Life & Times of Major Fiction."

Click here for reviews and track listing of Daily's lyric novel, Alarm.