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Swinging Modern Sounds #82: Joni Mitchell’s Court and Spark: A Symposium

  • Rick Moody
  • July 18, 2017
...yet she did what she did, and in the process made the most successful album of her career.
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Empire State of Memoir

  • Adam Keller
  • July 29, 2016
For Lit Hub, Edward White writes about Jay Z and Morrissey’s experimental memoirs, investigating how both artists indulge and subvert what readers want from a musician’s autobiography: Where Morrissey gives us…
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Morrissey Is Miserable for Australian Cats

  • Liz Wood
  • September 3, 2015
Morrissey has spoken out against Australia’s plan to cull two million feral cats by 2020, calling the animals “two million smaller versions of Cecil the lion,” reports the Guardian. According to…
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On Loving the Art of a Problematic Artist

  • Lauren O'Neal
  • March 27, 2013
In early 2010, I came within a hair’s breadth of securing a rare interview with Morrissey myself, but he ultimately backed out. It was disappointing, because I had planned…to ask…
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“SO NICE TO KNOW THERE’S ANOTHER SOUL OUT THERE”

  • Ava Kofman
  • July 25, 2012
In case you had doubts, it’s now clear that Morrissey’s sarcastic, witty, and tragicomic persona in The Smiths was never an act. Even back in 1980, three years prior to the band’s beginnings,…
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