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The second installment of my Los Angeles Review of Books — All the Poets, in which musicians discuss their literary influences — went up the other day: Rhiannon Giddens, who earned her reputation with the string band The Carolina Chocolate Drops, talked to me about her childhood interest in science fiction, in the African roots of what we think of as Appalachian or country music, and why she reads history.
Giddens is quite a departure from Stephin Merritt, my first interview for the series. Oddly, they both share a love for SF, especially a kids, and a lack of interest in hip hop.
See the whole piece here.