"I’ve always had a dream of being a writer who works in a bookstore with two dogs and a cat and doesn’t leave that bookstore except to go home and write his novels."
On a lazy South Florida spring afternoon, Thurston Moore, the way-out guitarist and inveterate noisemaker who co-founded the radically innovative indie-rock band Sonic Youth, is lounging in the shade of a poolside cabana at the Biltmore Hotel in Coral Gables, a favorite spot in the town of his birth.
As a TV plays scenes of the solar eclipse from around the continent, the gangly Moore, who is 6’6’’, slouches on a sofa in jeans and a short-sleeve shirt while his wife, Eva Prinz, and 12-year-old stepson Jules swim in the vast Biltmore pool, which today they have all to themselves.
Flocks of sparrows and parrots chirp and squawk in the palms overhead. Lizards peek out of the underbrush. The South Florida sun beams apparently unimpeded through a slight halo of.... clouds? Humidity? The eclipse? Hard to tell.
“Look at that,” Moore deadpans gleefully, glancing at the TV screen at eclipse-hunters standing in deep New England white stuff. “We would be up in the snow in Vermont right now. Instead, we’re down in Dade County.”
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