The American Dream

Columbia Records has released the 30th anniversary edition 3CD set of Bruce Springsteen's monumental Born to Run album. Interestingly, a book of stories had come out (not related to the box set release) based on the song Meeting across the river from the album, early this year. 20 writers have woven their stories around the song plot where the protagonist is released from the jail and waiting to meet his girlfriend and the ‘man on the other side’. You can read the first story online on Amazon. As per the review, though the plot is the same, the authors have leveraged on the silences in the song (which can be attributed to Springsteen's sparse lyrics) and the stories are quite diverse.
Probably they were filling in words for the saxophone playing throughout the song, which creates that haunting atmosphere!

Meeting Across the River: Stories Inspired by the Haunting Bruce Springsteen Song (Paperback)
by Jessica Kaye, Richard Brewer (Editor)
Bloomsbury USA (July, 2005)

I’ll post a review update, if I can get hold of the book!