Emily Sandstrom

1 week ago | interviewmagazine.com | Emily Sandstrom

Last month, Alice Notley, one of the foremost poets of her generation, died at the age of 79 in a hospital in Paris. According to her son, Anselm Berrigan, she wrote up until the very end. Like many poets of the Second Generation of the New York School, Notley rejected both poetic convention and institutional hierarchies. She and her husband, the poet Ted Berrigan, were instrumental in founding The Poetry Project in 1966, which still operates out of St. Mark’s on the Bowery.

1 week ago | interviewmagazine.com | Emily Sandstrom

SZA has a lot on her mind—heartache, power, alienation, desire, revenge, god, water, sex, death, legacy. Across two flawless albums, Ctrl and SOS, the New Jersey native has built one of pop’s most devoted fan bases, casting spells with uncensored songs that cut as deep as the ocean that inspires so much of her work. Before hitting the road with Kendrick Lamar on the Grand National Tour, she got on the line with Chappell Roan, a kindred spirit in search of the method behind her magic.

1 week ago | interviewmagazine.com | Emily Sandstrom

Last weekend, we lost one of the linchpins of New York’s music and nightlife community, Billy Jones. Jones had an extensive career as a booking agent and artist manager and was the founder of numerous venues that shaped the city’s nightlife, including newer fixtures like Funny Bar and Nightclub 101 and the gem that opened in 2013, Baby’s All Right—a space that birthed the careers of so many prolific artists.

2 weeks ago | interviewmagazine.com | Emily Sandstrom

“Fame, like alcoholism, rings a bell in you that can never be unrung,” Molly Jong-Fast writes early on in How To Lose Your Mother, her sharp and sobering new memoir out this week. The line sets her up to unpack the complicated legacy of her mother, Erica Jong, whose 1973 blockbuster novel Fear of Flying made her a feminist literary icon—and, as it turns out, a huge nightmare for those in her personal and professional orbit.

2 weeks ago | interviewmagazine.com | Emily Sandstrom

In an age where music documentaries often double as savvy bits of marketing, the filmmaker Alex Ross Perry went against the grain. His new movie Pavements blurs the lines between fact and fiction, following Pavement as they emerged as one of the defining bands of the 90s, interspersing archival footage with scripted scenes where the band members are played by actors.