“My own path into writing songs comes directly through literature. When I was a kid, I wanted to be a capital-A author, and I wrote short stories on an old Royal typewriter all the time. That was how I spent pretty much every summer night when I was 12 and 13 years old, sitting at my desk in front of the typewriter writing stories and then sending them off to science fiction and fantasy magazines; getting rejection slips but feeling like I was getting somewhere.”
The Mountain Goats front man John Darnielle talks shop, discussing how the works of John Berryman, Georg Trakl, Paul Celan, Sylvia Plath, and Norman Dubie influenced his early poems and lyrics.
(via largehearted boy)
