Asked in the same Paris Review interview whether it's good for a writer to be politically engaged in turbulent times, Paley registered the question's absurdity, refusing the notion that politics might be a harmful distraction for an artist: "It certainly isn't antithetical to a passionate interior life " all that noise coming in. You have to make music of […]
SOURCE: www.lrb.co.uk at 12:32PM on March 2, 2018