Video: Sufjan Stevens - PENultimate Lit

This past Monday, Sufjan partook at Pen American Center's "PENultimate Lit: An Evening on Music & Literature" at Southpaw in Brooklyn. When not talking books, Stevens took to the stage and played some stripped-down ditties. For instance, here's the man sporting some ragged facial hair, tuning his banjo a while, before moving into a moving rendition of "The Mistress Witch from McClure (Or the Mind that Knows Itself)." The hula hoops and triumphal orchestras are nice, but sometimes Soof sounds best by his lonesome, scratching at the door, like the music suggests. [...]