My piece about a 1994 interview with Townes Van Zandt is featured in the first print edition of Los Angeles Review of Books (the Spring 2013 issue), which they describe as “a selection of our best interviews and author questionnaires.”
Learn more at the LARB blog.
Read a brief interview with me at Los Angeles Review of Books. As usual, I am unable to refrain from my three favorite subjects: Merle Haggard, Charlotte Bronte, and compulsion.
“Q: Title of the book you’re probably never going to write, but would kind of like to get around to? Continue reading
In 1994, I interviewed Townes Van Zandt for Maybelle, the country music fanzine I co-edited. On the fifteenth anniversary of his death, Los Angeles Review of Books published my essay about the experience, Muddy Waters and Mozart: Remembering Townes Van Zandt. Check out the photos from Maybelle’s Fall 1994 issue. Someday I’ll write the story of a fanzine…
I’m happy to say this interview/essay was selected by LARB’s Senior Editor Julie Cline as one of her three favorite non-fiction pieces from their first year, and was picked up by Longform.org, Byliner, and 3quarksdaily, among other sites that curate longer pieces.