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In the year since Artspace’s Open Studios 2020 (see my contribution here ), I’ve continued my work on the Tarot panels and on the series cal...

Elizabeth Hardwick’s Herman Melville (2000)  Another book picked up by chance at Gray Matters, to complement earlier readings this month of...

Stanislaus Joyce’s My Brother’s Keeper. James Joyce’s Early Years (1957) Picked up a nice used copy by chance in Gray Matters mid-August. ...

It’s summertime for real, right now. Here in the northeast US there are heat advisories and warnings and there is some noticeable discomfort...

  A note, dated 6/21/14, I wrote in ink in the back of my copy of Hal Foster’s The First Pop Age (2012, Princeton UP) says:  What I’m aft...

3/12/19 So, if I turn my attention to the major myths as foundations to my readings in a variety of media, the failing to guard against is...

3/11/19 I was thinking this morning of how the type of account I want to write should begin with a statement of main themes, that it’s not e...

The following introduces the images I’m sharing in this year’s City-Wide Open Studios in New Haven, CT (here’s a link to the site at Artspac...

Re-read Camus’ The Fall , probably the first time since the 1980s. I read it first around 1974, I think, and it was part of the bac...