Essays

I was looking up Van Morrison interviews for this, and I have to say that one of the funniest things about Van the Man is the bizarre concoction of contradictions he represents. Maybe it’s because he was raised by an atheist father and Jehovah’s witness mother, but Morrison’s character is a little bit of everything: grouchy, mulish, and yet inventive; disdainful of inspirations and interpretations drawn from his music and yet open about his own influences; one would guess by