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Rolling Stone Menu The Rolling Stone Interview: Barry Jenkins
The Oscar-winning director on his adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel ‘The Underground Railroad,’ the beauty of black bodies, his unique path to Hollywood, and much more
By
Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize-winning 2016 novel
The Underground Railroad depicts both the savage reality of American slavery and the danger of escaping it. Much like
Gulliver’s Travels, the story takes its fugitive protagonist, Cora, on a fantastical tour through different states via a literal locomotive. Each stop along the way features horrors reminiscent of real-life atrocities. South Carolina is host to a Tuskegee-like experiment on supposedly free Negroes. North Carolina resembles both Nazi Germany and the early Oregon Territory, outlawing the existence of black people altogether. It is a world that requires a deft hand to commit to film, and perhaps no one is better suited than Barry Jenkins. Having bro
‘RS Interview: Special Edition’ With Eric Church Joseph Hudak
Eric Church wrote and recorded his new triple album
Heart & Soul during a monthlong retreat to a North Carolina mountain town. For this installment of the
Rolling Stone Interview: Special Edition, however, the country music protagonist is Zooming in from his writing cabin just west of Nashville.
At the time of our conversation, Church was gearing up for the release of
Heart & Soul the
Soul components are available far and wide April 16th and 23rd, respectively; the
& album only to members of his Church Choir fan club, for now. It’s an ambitious project, even for Church, an artist who has made a career of, for the most part, going against the Nashville grain. Yes, he’s signed to a major label, but he and his manager John Peets maintain a level of artistic control that’s on par with what Willie and Waylon fought for in the Seventies. Few country-radio stars would release a track titl