Stereogum interviews Este Haim of the musical trio Haim about the band's literary interests and other things.
STEREOGUM: Which books influenced your album?
HAIM: All three of us are big into Bukowski and Fante, who was one of Bukowski's biggest influences. He wrote about LA's Angel’s Flight in Ask The Dust. We could pick something off the wall and write about it. I mean, we've had our share of relationships, some good, some bad, you have to take something away and some of those relationships are in our songs, but there's no Taylor Swift shenanigans going on. There's no … what’s the Jewish equivalent? Oh yeah there’s no Dear Shlomo on the album.
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