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Interview, Oct, 2005 by Joelie Hicks, Anita Glazer
Dear Interview,
I have always enjoyed Joni Mitchell's music and will continue to do so. I admire her willingness to emerge from the safe confines of what has worked so well for her commercially and branch out into blues, jazz, etc. Her artwork on her own and others' albums is a joy. So I looked forward to reading the interview with her in your August issue and was disappointed to find her so ... ordinary. Being 52, a farmer's wife, and a Christian woman, I do not fall into your demographic. However, I enjoy reading your open-ended interviews with various personalities. But I yearn for something more than self-congratulation, platitudes, sweeping generalities, and prejudice disguised as wisdom. If Ms. Mitchell were twentysomething, these qualities would be understandable, but at her age and with her life experience it is only sad.
JOELIE HICKS Via the Internet
Dear Interview,
I just finished reading the conversation between Camille Paglia and Joni Mitchell, and I had to write to say how inspired and inspiring I found their dialogue. How refreshing it was to eavesdrop on two such wise and worldly women! At a time when it seems as though fewer and fewer Americans have the desire or ability to ask questions and think critically about their world, it's a pleasure to know that time has done nothing to weaken Mitchell's celebrated nose for bull.
ANITA GLAZER Minneapolis, MN
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