A book is always about the world, and happy people don’t have time for “about.” 14. Through writing, if you’re lucky, you ...

It turns out that for Ashbery, the big theory was psychoanalysis, the process by which secondhand knowledge becomes firsthand.” ...

The entries were a mixture of open submissions and solicited manuscripts. One of the editors, Zhou Jianing, approached me to ask if I’d be interested, and of course I accepted the challenge, in part ...

In his photographic sequences, Duane Michals has expanded the possibilities of his medium. While most photo- graphs deal with static appearances, Michals' depend on trans- formations and ...

To pose for him after practice. I’m an artist, he told me, I coach to pay the bills. He loved Greek vase work.

below and above them with pink.