“A lot of the women writers I published in the Voice talked about music in the context of their lives in a way that I’m not very good at. I tend to talk about music in terms of my record collection. Obviously, it’s completely a generality. I think that most of the women I quote in my articles talk about music in the course of their lives in a way men don’t.”
No idea if I agree with this.
(via zachbaron)
1) True that Eddy doesn’t often talk about music in the context of his life. But when he does, he is good at it. I just assumed he didn’t like doing it. I wish he would more.
2) This collection is really great. By far my favorite book of his.
3) I haven’t observed that women do this more.
(via markrichardson)
Well, and the interesting thing about this passage from the interview is that the very next ‘question’ is a Mary Gaitskill quotation, and Eddy situates her writing I guess somewhere between ‘life’ and a ‘record collection’, in an imaginative space. And he doesn’t use denigrative(-seeming) vocabulary to talk about her writing.
(via markrichardson)
