"The Anne Frank Album" - Tablet Magazine
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/arts-letters/articles/anne-frank-album-neutral-milk-hotel
"I am so used to the idea of Jews being thrown out like trash that I didn’t bat an eye at Anne Frank’s horrific story.
By contrast, the reaction that Jeff Mangum had when he picked up his paperback copy of The Diary of a Young Girl was the reaction that we should all be having. The idea of a young girl and her family forced to hide from the world in an attic was so profoundly upsetting that he wrote a whole album about it. Thinking about Aeroplane, I feel deeply upset that I never got to have the kind of connection to Anne Frank’s story that Jeff Mangum did, and I will never be able to. The mistreatment of Jews just seems like a part of life that I am prepared for.
Still, I want Jeff Mangum to know how much I value this album. Thank you for creating this wonderful work of art, and happy 25th anniversary to In the Aeroplane Over the Sea."
~ Susannah Samuels
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