Kraus, Chris. I Love Dick. Pasadena: Semiotext(e) Native Agents Series, 1998, 2006. Read: 12/22/20 (on the way to pick up Craiglist trash can) – 1/1/21, 6:04 PM. 1/1/21: I want a better word for it, but, there is a form of hyper-intellectual hyper-sexual woman (manic was the word) of which [] is one and Chris… Continue reading Chris Kraus – I Love Dick
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Maxine Hong Kingston – The Woman Warrior
Maxine Hong Kingston. The Woman Warrior. Random House: New York: Random House, Inc.; Toronto: Random House of Canada Limited, 1976. 8/8/20 – 8/18/20. Transcribed 8/20/20 Imagining all the people her aunt could have been, a disappeared figure. Cut out. Told with a folklorish certainty. Matter-of-fact-ness. Interesting that the chapter literally about a woman warrior is… Continue reading Maxine Hong Kingston – The Woman Warrior
Jia Tolentino – Trick Mirror
Tolentino, Jia. Trick Mirror. New York: Random House, 2019. 8/6/20 – 8/9/20. Transcribed 8/20/20. (8/7/20) Good (but great?) I like Anastasia Steele as dark doppelgänger of Bella (Twilight). Wait not even dark, just erotic. I admire the athleisure essay (it was the one split from yesterday to today). I admire the way she splices that… Continue reading Jia Tolentino – Trick Mirror
Ann Patchett – Bel Canto
Patchett, Ann. Bel Canto. Knew the sweetness had to end, all of the loves sustained within a single swell, like the vibrato of an opera singer’s note All helpless to systems How does she make all of these characters? Simon who fell in love with his wife in this country and sobs, in her blue… Continue reading Ann Patchett – Bel Canto
Museum of Chinese in America – Curators in Conversation: Melissa Chiu, Director of Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, and Herb Tam, Chief Curator of The Museum of Chinese in America
Darwin: Deep-sea diving for food Gallery 4A (foray?) Coming out of college she couldn’t get a job!! In the end came to the conclusion that even tough she had some experience she had to create something for herself. “If you really want to do it, insist, because sometimes it takes more effort if you’re an… Continue reading Museum of Chinese in America – Curators in Conversation: Melissa Chiu, Director of Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, and Herb Tam, Chief Curator of The Museum of Chinese in America
Mana Contemporary – “Art Criticism and Writing with Owen Duffy”
Has been writing for 7 or 8 years 2 sentences for the pitch (?!) Any response (gentle no) is better than silence Queens County Chronicle; Journal of Curatorial Studies “Someone else’s voice gently mixed into it.” He was offered $500 for the article; he asked for more, and got $750. Art & Education: $1,000 for… Continue reading Mana Contemporary – “Art Criticism and Writing with Owen Duffy”
“Sara Jensen Carr: On Epidemics” – Open House New York
G = Greg Wessner; S = Sara Jensen Carr; Q = listener question Gregory Wessner, the executive director of Open House New York, introduced the launch of the Conversations on the City series. This is their first ever webinar and though he can’t see us he’s going to pretend that he’s talking to all… Continue reading “Sara Jensen Carr: On Epidemics” – Open House New York
Martin McDonagh – In Bruges
Can only have taken place in a tiny city. About the magic of small towns, everything coming together like that. All the characters recurring bumping into each other. About the stupidness of that kind of thing — honor, guns, boys’ stuff, but also kind of grants it a certain leniency. The perfectness of its parts,… Continue reading Martin McDonagh – In Bruges
J. M. Coetzee – Disgrace
Coetzee, J. M. Disgrace. New York: Penguin Group, 1999. 4/8/20 – 4/10/20 Transcribed: Unknown; 4/24/20. Another book that is stunningly simple. Amazing “show don’t tell.” Has the markings of allegory but also brutally real. (Is this an observation I make too often in some form or another?) Very clean clear prose. The tone is of… Continue reading J. M. Coetzee – Disgrace
George Saunders – Pastoralia
Saunders, George. Pastoralia. New York: The Berkely Publishing Group, 2000. 4/6/20 (vast majority) – 4/7/20 Given to me by [] for my birthday. Cover subtly flashes with little stars and shooting stars. Immediately not what I thought it was, but so fitting that it is only the simulacrum of pastoralism. One of the books those… Continue reading George Saunders – Pastoralia