epilogue
Music & Literature
HUFFINGTON
09.23.12
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The Antlers’ Frontman Peter
Silberman on Returning to Earth
With Kurt Vonnegut
It’s easy to lose perspective. When writing, I tend to get
caught up in life’s specific frustrations and push them to
their extremes. I think overreactions are some of the truest expressions of real human feeling, like little alarms
that let us know that something’s important. Acknowledging, exploring and verbalizing these issues helps me
understand them.
But the fundamental limitation of this approach is that
it’s an almost entirely inward investigation, a scrutiny of