Jae-Ha Kim, Tribune Content Agency

Thurston Moore is best known as the singer-songwriter-guitarist for the influential rock band Sonic Youth. But he’s also a critically acclaimed author, whose “Sonic Life: A Memoir” documented his life and time in the group. Touring as a musician is part of the job, but it was his travels with his family that he vividly remembers. “When I was a wee child, my family took a trip to Key West and we climbed up to the top of some old lighthouse,” he recalled. “The perimeter of it had a chain-link fence around it prohibiting people from falling off the edge. I thought that was rather controlling. I climbed over it and prowled around the edge until my father spotted me and yelled for me to come back, and I did. I was wondering why he was so angry. I climbed back

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