Can you read music? Well, many of our best writers make music with words, but sometimes their inspiration – “muse” if you will - is an actual instrument and its player. This meeting of arts results in evocative and layered reading where even non-musicians can inhabit a musician’s world – be it pure fiction or based on a famous player. The following books are tuned for discovery (or rediscovery) and should lead many readers to seek musical accompaniment to their pages. FEATURED TITLES The Blue Guitar by John Banville From the Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Sea, a new novel…