Certainly some of my favorite songs are the ones that, weeks later, or months later, or sometimes even years later, you get hit by a lyric that you suddenly understand in a way you didn’t.
Writer-musician Ben Arthur and musician Ted Leo talk about composing, reading, and the performing life over at The Believer. Both are taking part in a project to respond, in song, to a short story by Joyce Carol Oates, in the spirit of appreciation and resonance across the arts.
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