The essential wisdom of Moris Tepper

Moris Tepper—onetime pre-vet student; collaborator with Captain Beefheart, Frank Black, Tom Waits and PJ Harvey; and, for this paper at least, tortoise-finding expert—chats animals (“You could talk to me about animals from now til doomsday. I’m queer on animals,” per L.A. RECORD) as easily as he does humans (“People [...]