No one is arguing that presidential candidates should have a mastery of the details of history. But it is essential that they have a general notion of the mainstreams of history.
In advance of Losing Music’s April 2023 publication by Milkweed Editions, John and I talked by email about Anna Deavere Smith’s plays, Jonathan Swift’s skull, the destructiveness and discouragements of capitalism, and how—no matter the condition of the body that contains them—all souls weigh the same.
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