The Wisdom of Insecurity
Here’s an essay or article I wrote for the Millions.
Add comment August 24th, 2010
Short story in Swink
I have a short story in (or on) Swink. I can’t seem to get a link to work–I’ve tried and sought help from someone more technically adept than I–but you should be able to get their easily enough through a search engine, Hotbot or what have you.
Add comment July 3rd, 2010
The End of the Novel
So by my lights, which feel a bit dim, I’m nearly through with this novel I’ve been working on.
1 comment April 2nd, 2010
They give us nice bright colors
A favorite from the Free Verse Project, in which fragments of poems are photographed. The James Wright poem-photo is my very favorite, but I couldn’t seem to make that image appear here. 
Add comment May 15th, 2009
The World of the Origin
Something I’m working on deals distantly with L’Origene du Monde, Gustave Courbet’s 1866 landmark of pornographic art. The painting’s ownership history is fascinating and complicated, and I won’t try to summarize it here, but a good, necessarily incomplete history of its travels, up to 1985 at least, can be found along with lots of ideas in this short Linda Nochlin essay. Also today I came across a cool hint of how The Origin might have looked, in harmony with Andre Masson’s sliding panel, in Jacques Lacan and Sylvia Bataille Lacan’s place.
Add comment May 8th, 2009
Let’s dress up like cops, think of what we could do.
Ain’t that nothin’ about Richard Lloyd. Re-reading the linked item, I see that I should have written “… Tom Verlaine and Richard Lloyd turned Television into one of rock’s greatest dueling-guitar bands …,” instead of the nonsensical way I have it. Not that I’m one to get anxious over mistakes in concert-preview blurbs.
Add comment May 5th, 2009
Destroyer of Loneliness
I’m now, for the second time (some of you might recall that frantic afternoon in ’04) on Facebook, destroyer of loneliness, and am eager to network socially with you in this nearly obligatory context. The world is larded with Dylan Hickses, and I’m on the second page, but ambitious to move up. Look for the photo below. Plans are also afoot to make this website or blog more current and active, but of course activity rarely lasts with such things.
1 comment March 16th, 2009
