“Spy of the First Person” (2017) is the last book Sam Shepard wrote before his death. If you’ve read Patti Smith’s “The Year of the Monkey”, you have an idea of the effort it took for the ailing Shepard to get the book ready for publication. It’s a novella about a chronically ill man recounting his past. It’s also about a person who watches that man do this. These first-person narratives are interwoven in short, intricately written, sometimes disorienting chapters.
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“Spy of the First Person” (2017) is the last book Sam Shepard wrote before his death. If you’ve read Patti Smith’s “The Year of the Monkey”, you have an idea of the effort it took for the ailing Shepard to get the book ready for publication. It’s a novella about a chronically ill man recounting his past. It’s also about a person who watches that man do this. These first-person narratives are interwoven in short, intricately written, sometimes disorienting chapters.
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Our prince of a cat, a sweetheart and gentleman of the highest order.
#CatsOfMastodon
An oldie for #FensterFreitag. A window from some ruin in Marin County, California. Also my phone lock screen for a long time.
Taken with my Pentax ME Super, likely on TRI-X.
#BelieveInFilm #photography
I read Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “The Scarlet Letter” (1850) for a few reasons, one was shame — my shame that it’s the only book I ever skipped reading and bought the Cliff notes for in college. 25+ years later I’ve righted the wrong and read this weird, wonderful, and occasionally confounding book. Sure, Hawthorne’s style can be labored and obtuse, but also startlingly metafictive. In fact it’s the modes of storytelling that partially make it so interesting.
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I spent the last year making a lot of #art in my #notebooks.
Thought I’d share some.
#Colorblind2024
“No Sign”
Thermal photo print with solvent transfer and wax crayon
Colorblind Cowboy