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Lucinda Williams draws from where the spirit meets the bone

Mark Hinson, Tallahassee Democrat May 22, 2014 Lucinda Williams once chased Flannery O’Connor’s peacocks. We’re not talking metaphorical literary peacocks, either. When Williams was kindergarten age in the late ‘50s, she and her father, the poet Miller Williams, drove from Macon, Ga., to Milledgeville, Ga., to visit the great Southern Gothic writer Flannery O’Connor as … Read moreLucinda Williams draws from where the spirit meets the bone

Longreads Member Pick, shares a first-time-ever memoir by Lucinda Williams from Radio Silence, a San Francisco-based magazine of literature and rock & roll.

Lucinda Williams, with Benjamin Hedin | Radio Silence | March 2014 | 11 minutes (2,690 words) Lucinda Williams recently turned sixty-one, and on the whole she feels pretty good about it. “I was so young, so sweet and tender,” she says when shown a photograph of herself at thirty-five. “I wish I still looked like … Read moreLongreads Member Pick, shares a first-time-ever memoir by Lucinda Williams from Radio Silence, a San Francisco-based magazine of literature and rock & roll.