Thursday, January 14, 2021

220. On Bart Lodewijks at } Full Stop.

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Among numerous other projects I undertook during the summer, I wrote a sequence of short essays concerned w/ art. Four of these (about Nancy...
Wednesday, November 4, 2020

219. Only when we are } hidden bodies.

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Sleepaway Camp III: Teenage Wasteland begins with a pan & tilt from a teenager’s messy bedroom floor to her bed, where she lies uncover...
Wednesday, October 28, 2020

218. "...a horrible parody } of human speech."

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During my first graduate workshop, in addition to the stories we wrote and workshopped, we were asked to bring copies of a published story f...
Friday, September 11, 2020

217. William Wordsworth & } a number “n.”

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Stumbled across this passage in the little book The Great Mathematicians (Herbert Western Turnbull): … But the greatest figure of all was W...
Monday, August 31, 2020

216. “…fully armored warrior on } a barded horse….”

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Two new fragments from my corpus: “June first,” from Ovid’s Fasti , explains why we honor the goddess of the hinge w/ humble food. Written f...
Wednesday, June 24, 2020

215. Erin Johnson } “Lake (Skowhegan, ME)” 2020

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Is it queer to float together in a lake? 18 artists (“a group of friends, peers, and lovers”), video-recorded by a drone, (mostly...
Saturday, May 16, 2020

214. Harold Redicliffe “Fourteen Paper Cups” } & Terry Bisson “Bears Discover Fire.”

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Aunt Marie gave me Terry Bisson’s short story collection Bears Discover Fire ; I must’ve read it soon after I saw Redicliffe’s “Fourtee...