READING & BOOKS DEPT: Sometimes you just have to buy a book because it has this in it: J. G. Ballard and Bob Dylan traveling together to a Richard prince exhibit. My heart is full. I am done. Nothing can top this.
T-SHIRTS I READ TODAY DEPT: I’m too sober for this.
MUST WATCH DEPT: Mr. K • 2024 Dir: Tallulah H. Schwab A little bit of Kafka, a little bit of Walser. Looks like my kind of cinematic recipe.
"…a vase in a window, a blip on the radio, a misplaced brick in a wall." -The New Yorker, page 36, Sept. 16, 2024
READING DEPT: WARHOL, PHILOSOPHY A whole day of life is like a whole day of television. -p. 5 You can do so much more with a chair than you can with a painting. -p. 6
EPIGRAPH DEPT: Janet Malcom’s Reading Chekhov, A Critical Journey "What torture it is to cut the nails on your right hand!" -Chekhov, letter to Olga Knipper, October 30, 1903
DREAM DEPT: I’m in line to check my luggage and get my boarding pass at the airport, with my dog, which in the dream is the wrong breed, when I suddenly realize I left my passport at home.
"There were some things, some anger or passion that was beyond my understanding and had been tamped down for too long." -Diane Williams, from the Oct. 2, 2018 NY Times profile Once you read her your mind will order speech into her cadences. www.nytimes.com/2018/10/02/b...
The 72-year-old avant-garde writer and editor will publish a career-spanning collection this month.
OVERHEARD DEPT: #OverheardInNYC Well, my list of things to do is, I got work at the top and then a chick I gotta work out and then I have to pack my place.
EVERYBODY IN NYC RIGHT NOW: Did you feel the earthquake? ME: I have no feelings.