Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist. Rachel Cohn

      

      First published in the USA in 2006 by Alfred A Knopf,

       an imprint of Random House Children’s Books,

       a division of Random House Inc, New York

      First published in Great Britain in 2014

       by Electric Monkey, an imprint of Egmont UK Limited

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      Text copyright © 2006 Rachel Cohn and David Levithan

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      First e-book edition 2014

      ISBN 978 1 4052 7243 8

       eISBN 978 1 7803 1500 3

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       To Martha and Real Nick

      Electric Monkey books by David Levithan

       Every Day

       How They Met and Other Stories

       Two Boys Kissing

      Written with Rachel Cohn

       Naomi and Ely’s No Kiss List

       Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist

      Contents

       Cover

       Title Page

       Copyright

       Dedication

       Front series promotional page

1. NICK

2. NORAH

3. NICK

4. NORAH

       5. NICK

       6. NORAH

       7. NICK

       8. NORAH

       9. NICK

       10. NORAH

       11. NICK

       12. NORAH

       13. NICK

       14. NORAH

       15. NICK

       16. NORAH

       17. NICK

       18. NORAH

       19. NICK

       20. NORAH

       THE ACKNOWLEDGMENTS PLAYLIST

       Back series promotional page

      The day begins in the middle of the night. I am not paying attention to anything but the bass in my hand, the noise in my ears. Dev is screaming, Thom is flailing, and I am the clockwork, I am the one who takes this thing called music and lines it up with this thing called time. I am the ticking, I am the pulsing, I am underneath every part of this moment. We don’t have a drummer. Dev has thrown off his shirt and Thom is careening into feedback and I am behind them, I am the generator. I am listening and I am not listening because what I’m playing isn’t something I’m thinking about, it’s something I’m feeling all over. All eyes are on us. Or at least that’s what I can imagine in my stageblindness. It’s a small room and we’re a big noise and I am the nonqueer bassist in a queercore band who is filling the room with undertone as Dev sing-screams, Fuck the Man / Fuck the Man / I really want to / Fuck the Man. I am punctuating and I am puncturing and I am punching the air with my body as my fingers press hard into the chords. Sweat, malice, and hunger pour from me. This is release, or maybe it’s just a plea for release. Dev is wailing now and Thom is crashing and even though my feet don’t move I am traveling hard. I look past the light and see people shaking, people jumping around,