As A Lyricist And Novelist, The Mountain Goats’ Lead Man Writes About Pain
“I really think there’s a lot of music you can use to heal and save yourself. It’s not like I have some magic power and I reached inside somebody and said, ‘Oh, you didn’t know this about yourself until I wrote this song.’ That’s not true. What I did is I made a thing, and somebody who needed to find something found mine and chose to meet me out on that ground.”
– John Darnielle of The Mountain Goats
Darnielle’s novel, Wolf in White Van, which was nominated for the 2014 National Book Award, is now out in paperback.
[Originally broadcast September 2014]