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https://www.sightline.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/Weekend-Reading-200w.png200189Anna: I enjoyed David Remnick's profile of Springsteen (at age sixty-two) in the New Yorker. It's a look back and a snapshot of where Bruce is today. Here's Bruce's explanation of why his exuberant live performances are still critical: “For an adult, the world is constantly trying to clamp down on itself. Routine, responsibility, decay of institutions, corruption: this is all the world closing in. Music, when it’s really great, pries that shit back open and lets people back in, it lets light in, and air in, and energy in, and sends people home with that and sends me back to the hotel with it. People carry that with them sometimes for a very long period of time.” Anybody who's seen Springsteen in concert knows what he's talking about.