This week, I’ve been working to finish an essay. (Finish is not an accurate term. Is anything ever finished?) This particular piece has been bobbling around my mind for about a year and it will certainly go through some more revisions but I thought I’d share the process of its making. I’ve been thinking about [...]
This week, the 58th issue of Sonora Review, the oldest student-run literary journal in the country, is going to print. Sweet. As art director, it’s like I get to know the future. And so here, world, is a snapshot of the near future. Some cool things about this issue. First, the journal is being printed [...]
You’re probably wondering – as I would be were I on the other end of the internet – what is up with this title. Well, I’ll tell you. It’s a bookstore, you silly goose. When was the last time you were in an actual bookshop? My last visit was to The Strand, one of the [...]
Memoir is a genre (of writing, of art, of anything) dating back to, well, probably forever, but at least the fourth century, CE, from which time we have St. Augustine’s Confessions (on my summer reading list). Which is to say the literary form has been written and written again for, say, 1,600+ years. That’s a [...]
This week, I spent several hours looking for literary journals who still print actual, physical artifacts. The things we can hold in our desperate hands. At the time, I also wanted a journal who would print a graphic essay (selfishly). Or, if not that…something experimental and boundary-destroying. And I was devastated to learn that many [...]
What’s this? A bonus Thursday post this week? Hell yes. Finally, finally. The second graphic essay of my book project is in good shape and now in book form. I’ve just ordered a printing from Blurb, who I am increasingly questioning as my go-to book humans. But the jury’s still out. So, I’ve decided to [...]
Today is an excellent day, because I am flying back to the eastern seaboard for the summer. For the next three months, I’ll be between Connecticut and New York, visiting galleries, hearing talks, buying book art things, drinking wine on the deck and hanging out with some of my favorite humans (sans Tom, which is [...]
Another semester is finally winding down and with it are the requisite papers and reflections. One such reflection, part of a writing course, involved the relationship between memory and research. After spending a semester reading various kinds of memoirs (from the journalistic to the borderline sentimental), we were asked to consider how research can be [...]
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The Essay as Artist Book A late post today, but I wanted to share an update on my manuscript project. Here are a few spreads from the second chapter, which will be released as an artist book in the next few weeks, after cleaning up some finishing touches. Any feedback is totally welcome. Otherwise, see [...]