George Saunders cites Missy Mazzoli in new Lit Hub article titled “George Saunders on Reading Chaotically and the Power of Generous Teachers.” A quote from the article reads…
“I’d love to be a lead guitar player or maybe, if I could go back in time and get better trained, a composer of serious music. When I listen to works by artists like Missy Mazzoli or Caroline Shaw or John Adams, I feel a similar pattern of neuron-firing as when I’m thinking about writing something—that hunger to make structure and form part of the meaning of the piece, the desire to find a way to make something that would resist being explained.”…