Matt Donnelly Senior Film WriterIt took more than 13,000 plays of the Bruce Springsteen song “If I Should Fall Behind” — a live version recorded with the E Street Band at Madison Square Garden — to help Laura Dave finish her latest novel, “The Last Thing He Told Me,” which hit shelves on May 4.The author of bestsellers like “Eight Hundred Grapes” and “The Divorce Party” listens to the same song on repeat as part of a long-held process. “I’m ritualistic to the point where there is definitely OCD in there,” she says, “and if I stop writing mid-song, I pick up where I left off the next morning.”The Boss is not the only marquee talent in Dave’s life these days.
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