Chalk: The Art and Erasure of Cy Twombly by Joshua Rivkin Melville House, 2018 464 pages / Melville It is difficult to write about art in a way that respects its…
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To Float in the Space Between: A Life and Work in Conversation with the Life and Work of Etheridge Knight by Terrance Hayes Wave Books, 2018 224 pages / Wave Poets…
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Written Lives by Javier Marías Translated by Margaret Jull Costa Penguin Modern Classics, 2016 (First published in English by New Directions in 2006) 208 pages – Penguin /Amazon The great figures in…
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Two Memoirs: An Auto+Biography by Amanda Montei Jaded Ibis Productions, 2015 210 pages – Amazon Amanda Montei’s Two Memoirs: An Auto+Biography is a unique hybrid of a book. Occupying a…
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Utopia Parkway: The Life and Times of Joseph Cornell Other Press, 2015 – reprint (originally published in 1997) 592 pages – Other Press / Amazon What do we make…
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LiteratureOpinionTHE HAUNTED HOUSE: WEEK FOUR
“Laughter in the face of Dying, Death in the face of Laughing”I spent the last few weeks working my way through Michel Surya’s brilliant 1984 biography of Georges Bataille. In French, the subtitle of the book is “la mort à l’oeuvre,”…