angela bofill + "i try" + pure incantation

'There was no night coming. We held on and saw everything.'

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I wrote about the singer songwriter Angela Bofill for the New York Times Magazine’s annual The Lives They Lived issue. It was just published, and I haven’t seen it on paper yet so if you have the magazine in hand, please take a picture of the Bofill pages and send my way. She is a favorite of mine. I have been listening to her …