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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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,”…