Editing Steven Brust (section)

==={{anchor|Songs from The Gypsy}}''Songs from The Gypsy'' (1995)===
{{main|Songs from The Gypsy}}
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{{Music ratings
| title= Boiled in Lead: ''Songs from The Gypsy''
| rev1 = [[AllMusic]]
| rev1Score = {{Rating|2|5}}<ref name="AM2">{{AllMusic |class=album |id=mw0000180285| label=''Songs from the Gypsy'' review |first=Roch|last=Parisien|access-date=April 2, 2014}}</ref>
}} The 1995 enhanced CD ''[[Songs from The Gypsy (Boiled in Lead album)|Songs from The Gypsy]]'', by the band [[Boiled in Lead]], featured songs written by Brust and [[Adam Stemple]], as well as the full text of Brust's novel ''[[The Gypsy (novel)|The Gypsy]].''<ref name="SHInterview" />

[[AllMusic]] reviewer Steven McDonald called ''Songs from The Gypsy'' "an example of Brust's serious songwriting working well."<ref name="AM1">{{AllMusic |class=album |id=mw0000908823|label=''A Rose for Iconoclastes'' review |first=Steven |last=McDonald|access-date=April 2, 2014}}</ref>

Conversely, a critical review by [[AllMusic]]'s Roch Parisien emphasized that "''Songs from The Gypsy'' represents a failure of multimedia integration. As an audio CD, the disc serves up ten songs, ranging from acoustic trad to bluesy rockers, that ironically form a less cohesive whole than previous Boiled in Lead releases. The better numbers (like the title track) incorporate Celtic rock with Hungarian, Middle Eastern, and other interesting worldbeat influences."<ref name="AM2" /> Parisien found the album's integration with the novel unsuccessful, in that the novel's 17 chapters were presented as "scrollable text only, which also intersperse some 80 song lyric excerpts that you can play from hot buttons. Annoyingly, you must flip back to the main menu index to move from one chapter to the next."<ref name="AM2" /> Parisien concluded, "Despite Brust's engrossingly poetic, impressionist story inspired by Hungarian folk tales and revolving around three Gypsy brothers, the project does not overcome the primary limitation of bringing literature to the computer screen, that being that the computer offers an inhospitable environment for viewing literature-length text."<ref name="AM2" /> The review, written in 1995, predated a wave of popular [[e-book reader]]s that began to emerge about ten years later.