Sufjan Stevens writes for Topic Magazine

August 30th, 2006 by Rachelandthecity

Press Release: Topic 9: Music Available Now!

Topic 9: Music features a rare, original piece of writing from musician Sufjan Stevens. Topic invited the notoriously press-shy Sufjan to submit a piece of personal narrative for this issue.

He writes, “In the obscure backrooms of my memory, there is a gauzy portrait of me drumming pots and pans on the kitchen floor. I am a bumbling infant, top-heavy, lower-lipped, thumb-suckling, encountering gravity for the first time.”

Sufjans writing is as sensitive and lyrical as his music, and as his fans will attest, there is something about this mans emotional depth that can leave an audience shaken.

Sufjan Stevens is Topics latest addition to a growing list of personalities whove shared their voice with the magazine. Topic featured from competitive eater Crazy Legs Conti in Topic 6: Food, writer Amy Bloom in Topic 7: Family and card-counter Lee Aaron Blair in Topic 8:Sin.

With Topic 9: Music, Topic continues to be only publication that invites those living extraordinary lives to tell their stories their own words. Every story in Topic 9: Music is from a person whose life intersects with music in an extraordinary and provocative way. The result is stories that are unfiltered, immediate and real.

Topic 9: Music includes pioneering filmmaker Penelope Spheeris on a lifetime of making music documentaries, Leon Hendrix on launching his band and Mark Mothersbaugh on inserting subliminal messages into Kool-Aid commercials. It features the man who invented karaoke but didnt patent it, the woman who discovered N.W.A but didnt sign them, and a rock star who found success shortly before losing her voice. And it introduces The Experts, Topics A-Team-like assembly of specialists, professionals and connoisseurs.