Thank you so much, my friend! For listening and enjoying, but also for picking up a copy. I hope that the tunes will continue to unfold and reveal themselves over time. That's my favorite thing that happens with music, anyhow. Glad to know you dig the Borrowed Lives. It's the oldest tune on there, and in some ways, the simplest, and I have often wondered if it felt at home on the recording. Another friend found it the least interesting track, so I'm glad to have your point of view in opposition to that.

Reconciled to Terry Gross, eh? Can't wait to tell N! She retains her bristling response to the celebrated interview-trix. I think she regards Ms. Gross's intuition as more likely to lead her to all the interviewee's sorest spots, where the Achilles heels and most lurid details hide. Surely, that too is a worthy tool for the interviewer, but one which creates an opposite emotional reaction, at least in N. I hope to hear some of the moments you are discussing, and to balance out my perhaps jaundiced perspective with them, as I remain ambivalent about her. She's no Barbara Walters or anything, i.e., doesn't every time go with the kneejerk lunge for the tear-jerk jugular, but I have sometimes found her style unnecessarily confrontational, incendiary even. She is not the anti-Charlie Rose, but approaches.

Mostly though, I'm just delighted to be returned to our first conversation. I do remember vaguely that we discussed her ages ago, and I'm delighted we're still in conversation, about Ms. Gross among ever so many other things!

Cheers, and again, thanks!