Joni Mitchell — an only child born on the Canadian prairies — reinvented herself for more than six decades, aptly singing “I’m on a lonely road, and I am traveling, traveling, traveling ...

Writer Ann Powers’ new book on Joni Mitchell, “Traveling: On the Path of Joni Mitchell” (published June 11), is a bit different from the usual biography of a musician. It’s a story of the ...

What makes Joni Mitchell extraordinary ... Now is a great time for people experimenting with biography. You see books like “My Autobiography of Carson McCullers” [by Jenn Shapland], which ...

Ann Powers’s deeply personal biography of Joni Mitchell ... quotes her in her intricately probing new book, Traveling: On the ...

From what you wrote about David Yaffe’s 2017 biography of Joni, Reckless Daughter ... You say that his book took its cues from Mitchell herself. Is that why you didn’t interview Joni for ...

Then, Here & Now's Robin Young is joined by NPR Music's Ann Powers, who's written a biography of Joni Mitchell's expansive career called Traveling. To listen to Book of the Day sponsor-free and ...

Adapted and excerpted from “Traveling: On the Path of Joni Mitchell.” © 2024 by Ann Powers. Reprinted with permission of Dey Street Books, an imprint of ...

Your book comes at a really crucial time ... Your take is very much a Joni Mitchell biography for this moment. And it’s rightly, I would argue, elevating her as an artist on par with Bob ...

On the Path of Joni Mitchell is not a traditional biography, nor is it hagiographic. Powers understands that Mitchell, like all of us, has had her ups and downs. The book is more like a road trip ...

Attentive readers will notice that I have begun a review of a book about Joni Mitchell by saying more ... A Dark Fairy Tale: In her sprightly new biography, “The Rebel Romanov,” Helen ...

A martini (shaken, not stirred) is best enjoyed with this bio. ‘Traveling: On the Path of Joni Mitchell’ by Ann Powers. Dey Street Books ...

Happily, Ann Powers’ book, “Traveling: On the Path of Joni Mitchell,” has prepared me for my next such encounter, both intellectually and energetically. Better than that, it has helped me ...