I first met Becca Rothfeld when I pitched her back at the end of 2020. She had just joined The Point Magazine as a contributing editor, but I reached out because I loved her essay “Same As It Ever Was,” published in a magazine called Cabinet. The piece was about the Talking Heads and heaven, two interests of mine that dovetailed, in Becca’s hands, into a piece of music criticism, theological meditation, and stylistic excellence. At a time when the rigidities of certain kinds of cultural criticism resulted in boring, ambivalent, even outright combative writing (frankly, this is still a present issue), Becca’s work stood out to me.
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