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Benjamin Holsteen

The kind of music fan who ends up moving to Scotland in his 40's to write a PhD thesis about Nick Cave. No, that's not a joke.

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What song do you associate with your biggest accomplishment?

When I was working on my Master’s dissertation and fighting with the homunculus who lives rent-free in my head, this song was the pump-jam I used to steel myself for what Nick Cave calls the “sacred duty” of the creator: “to turn around and kick th[e] little fucker in the balls” each day before I sat down to write.

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