A Radical Cut In The Texture Of Reality

. “I used to think that time is just one thing, the way a ruler is always the same length, twelve inches or twenty-four inches or even a ...

. I try to imagine what my life might have been like if I had never become an artist. To imagine my life being opposite. And the first t...

. Six quotations on pessimism Eighteen quotations on fame Six quotations on individualism Thirteen quotations on loneliness ...

. “Proust wrote in his novel that a man, during the second half of his life, might become the reverse of who he was in the first. When I...

. “On the populist left, the then favored model of the oppositional spokesman was what Gramsci called the “organic intellectual”: someon...

. I could call up Arianna and confirm the best story I know about these dinner parties. But I don’t want it not to be true. I tell my ch...

Some lines from For Sure by France Daigle (Translated by Robert Majzels) : * “The rituals of obsessive neurosis are such that Freud co...

I have so much to say about this record that I don’t even know where to begin. Made by members of The Fall who, over the years, Mark E....

. “We shall define sexuality as that which can’t be satisfied and therefore as that which transforms the person.” – Kathy Acker, Great ...

. Diachroneity Books seeks novels, short story collections, novels-in-flash, encyclopedias (lol), and fresh translations of the above. C...

Some passages from Ordinary Notes by Christina Sharpe : * “I want to tell how sorrow makes a shape that is familiar. And how that fami...

. Jealousy of other artists is perhaps the most natural part of being an artist. Artists should have honest discussions about ambitio...

. The video recording of My apartment is just piles of books  was online only until April 30th, 2023 and therefore is no longer availabl...

. When you finish a first draft of a book, do a word count, and learn that the manuscript is 99,430 words long. .

. How many times have I gone online and posted a paragraph entitled “possible opening for a new novel?” That feeling of starting somethi...

. Can an art of collective struggle really be made by an individual artist? My secret, if I have one, is that I honestly hate being aliv...

. There is a genre of scene I believe I have read several times in a certain kind of nonfiction book. In this type of scene, the author ...

. And things started to happen, but none of them were the things we said were going to happen, and none of them were the things anyone e...

. On Wednesday, Feb. 15 at 5pm EST I will be having a Virtual Coffee Chat with Julia Lee Barclay-Morton about her book The Mortality Sh...

. My life is entangled in theatre but I now know almost no one else who works in theatre. It is like a place I have almost completely le...