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November 11, 2023

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https://pitchfork.com/features/interview/inside-john-darnielles-boiling-brain/?utm_medium=social&utm_brand=p4k&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=facebook&mbid=social_facebook

• There’s this notion in Jewish thinking of healing the world. I’m almost always writing about situations that you as a person would prefer to avoid. And then I want [the characters] to heal. Because all your characters are eventually you anyway. There’s no way you can write a character who doesn’t somehow come from you. Nobody has that kind of vision. So I want them to learn something from their hard times and wind up someplace better. When you tell a story, you imagine yourself in it. And when you imagine yourself someplace, you hope you come out of it OK.