Against Argument
Teju Cole, Zürich, 2014, from the exhibition “Teju Cole: Blind Spot and Black Paper,” on view at Steven Kasher Gallery from June 15–August 11. Courtesy of Steven Kasher Gallery, New York. 1 When I...
View ArticleI’m the Marmalade: An Interview with Wayne Koestenbaum
In the fall of last year, I found myself in Tenth Avenue’s 192 Books, chatting with a stranger. The man (whose enviable green coat had temporarily distracted me from his visage) was thumbing through...
View ArticleThe Last of French Seventies Counterculture
A French cult classic from 1972 is being published in English for the first time. Jean-Jacque Schuhl Jean-Jacques Schuhl answered the door in slippers, no socks. He offered me, in knowing jest, bio...
View ArticleKevin Killian’s Memoirs of Sexed-Up, Boozy Long Island
Kevin Killian. Photo: Peter E. Hanff. Every time I feel fascination I just can’t stand still. —David Bowie, “Fascination” Born on Christmas Eve, 1952, in a hamlet on Long Island, Kevin Killian began...
View ArticleStaff Picks: Passion, Portals, and Premature Presents
T. S. Eliot’s “The Cultivation of Christmas Trees” I’ve spent a lot of time guddling around the Daily archive of late. There are many joys attendant to this, not least the expansion of that tragic...
View ArticleThe Pleasure of a Petty Thief: Letters, 1982–83
Hans Georg Berger, Hervé Guibert and Eugène Savitzkaya, New Year’s Eve, Rio nell’Elba, 1984. Courtesy of Semiotext(e). In 1977, the writers Hervé Guibert and Eugène Savitzkaya began exchanging letters....
View Article
More Pages to Explore .....