Monthly Archives: August 2026

We log onto Zoom and start talking right away. Nate offers to use his since the school he teaches at offers an institutional account that doesn’t kick you off after forty minutes. We talk about many things including his new book, which I’d recently read and was going to write about. We have an easyContinue reading “unrecording”

The idea of being rediscovered is an attractive one for any artist who’s been ignored or forgotten. Usually, it happens after they’re dead, so it does them no good and the rediscoverers can make them into saints or devils and to write their legends anyway they see fit. But what if the neglected genius isContinue reading “Late Fame”

I haven’t pulled a shift at the bar in a couple months so it takes a little time to get my sea legs back. Prices went up while I was away so the memorized math has to be recalibrated. There’s no art on the walls, which is disorienting. My show here is next month soContinue reading “Chartreuse”