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A few months ago a copy of The Spectacle of Skill by the late Robert Hughes showed up on my doorstep. It was delivered at the behest of Bookslut, the literary site for which I’d be reviewing it. A month or so later, after finishing the nearly-700-page tome and sending off my review, it occurred to meContinue reading “2 Hughes Reviews”

Trips back to Brookline over the last few years have largely been spent in and around my mother’s kitchen. When we’re not eating there, food is being prepared for the inevitable guests. Then there is clean-up and dishwashing after they’ve left. I’ve drawn and painted bits and pieces of this room many times. This timeContinue reading “Brookline/NYC/Netflix”

For those of you who’ve been reading these newsletters this past year it’ll be old hat to hear me talk about quitting Twitter, getting rid of my smartphone, etc. but last Tuesday the Chicago Reader published a whole essay I wrote on the subject. It seems to’ve struck a chord with a few people and I thankContinue reading “Disconnecting to Connect”