I was 14 or 15 when I discovered poetry, and I pretty much stopped writing prose until Master of Reality.
John DarnielleNorth Carolina was on the vanguard of being for [ trans rights ], and that's why we're seeing this push back. The conservatives noticed that there had been a lot of progress and they tried to tamp it down.
John DarnielleBooks are like rocks. You hold one in your hand and look at it in various lights to get a sense of it, and then when you get a good angle, you throw it through a window to see what happens.
John DarnielleI'm not really a goal-oriented guy. I started doing the Mountain Goats just for the sheer hell of it.
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