Joan Baez, 82, talks about drawing, panic attacks, and America's backward spiral

Folk legend and activist Joan Baez is 82 years old. And while she's moved away from music, her creative brilliance continues to shine, most recently through a new book of her line drawings, Am I Pretty When I Fly? The New Yorker's Amanda Petrusich, one of my favorite contemporary music critics, interviewed Baez about art, political advocacy, her mattress in a tree, and hope:

That's hard to hear—I sometimes try to comfort myself by saying, "Oh, America has always been fraught and divided and violent; this is simply the latest version."

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