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Sufjan Stevens Is Doing Okay
The self-declared “poster child of death in the music world” lost his partner and then got sick. But he’s trying to stay optimistic.
In 2023, Sufjan Stevens shared on Tumblr that he’d been diagnosed with Guillain-Barré syndrome, a quick-working autoimmune disorder with a vast symptom set that includes persistent pain and muscle weakness. Then, that October, in a shattering dedication note for his tenth album, Javelin, he revealed that his partner, Evans Richardson IV, formerly chief of staff at the Studio Museum in Harlem, had died that April. On Good Friday, I hopped on a video call with Stevens, who appeared clean-shaven and cherubic, wearing a hat and hoodie in the Catskills studio where he has worked since 2019.
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