Morty Shallman’s Literary Pop

Morty Shallman’s Literary Pop: A Mash-Up of Pop Music and Literary Fiction

Literary Pop is a groundbreaking multimedia art form created by Morty Shallman that blends pop music and literary fiction in new, exciting ways. As the creator of Literary Pop, Morty Shallman weaves original songs directly into his narrative prose, reimagines traditional music forms like albums and EPs with literary and cinematic tropes, and creates original theme songs for his literary works like his Amazon #1 Bestselling Novel, The Tyranny of Desire, and Amazon #1 New Release, War and Sex.

See below for slideshows that explore the origins of Literary Pop through the signature works that have defined it:

#1) Love’s Oblivion: A Novel in Twelve Pop Songs (2002)

#2) Pop Fiction: An Indie Noir Musical Thriller (2017)

#3) Novel Theme Songs (2023-)

#4) Last of the Zacharys: A Musical Novel (2026)