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This is a lovely story: the fan letter she wrote, the reply that was never sent, and how it felt to read it more than twenty years later.

I’m looking forward to Jamie Fisher’s forthcoming book on Elliott Smith. There have been bad books about Smith; they typically focus on the tragedy of the sad-sack musician. The couple of good ones take a broader, more all-encompassing view. Fisher’s sounds like the latter type. It’s been blessed by Smith’s engineer, collaborator and archivist, Larry Crane, which bodes well.