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A Pitchfork Staffer Looks Back The Influential Music Site's Historic Run

On wednesday, Jan. 17, media conglomerate Condé Nast revealed that it would be laying off staff at the online music publication Pitchfork and merging the website with men’s magazine GQ.

Larry Woiwode, the author of lyrical, expansive novels, short stories, poems and essays, mostly planted in the American West, that explored the power

Raised in North Dakota and rural Illinois, he was a literary star in New York City in the 1970s. But he left the limelight to raise a family on a North Dakota farm.

As affable and loquacious as he was, Kurt Vonnegut disliked interviews. In Palm Sunday, he mentions his distaste for the process itself, of being subjected to an interviewers desperate attempts at carving open his brain in order to mine it for ideas. Considering his objections, we are rather lucky that Kurt Vonnegut still went under the interviewers knife from time to time, for few people have ever had as many interesting things to say as he did. His insights into writing were especially valua...