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Stephen Fredman graduated from Point Loma High School in a large class of 900 students in 1966. I was there - that was my class too. Like many alums, Stephen left this "waspish, uncool Navy town" and he ended up teaching modern American poetry and poetics at the University of Notre Dame for 37 years.…

LIKE SO MUCH ART of the present, the work of Sung Tieu necessitates a fair amount of explanatory text. Reading the growing body of writing about Tieu (the artist will open her first US solo exhibitions—“Infra-Specter” at Brooklyn’s Amant on March 30, “Civic Floor” at Cambridge’s MIT List Visual Arts Center on April 4—nearly concurrently), I was struck by the frequency with which the Cold War surfaced as a referent. The term rightly identifies the period about which much of the ar...

Revolutionary. Radical. Shocking. Just a few of the words that describe American writer and essayist Kathy Acker and her work. Her books and articles are marked by experimental, fragmented prose,

By stealing the work of others, the author remade herself—and reinvented what autobiographical writing could be.

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I DIDN'T KNOW Dan Graham well. I met him a handful of times in the mid-2000s when I was a graduate student at Princeton University. I wanted to write my dissertation on Dan, but I was too young and too terrified to do it. Once, when I met him in his loft on New York’s Spring Street, he threw a fit because I didn’t know the work of the Japanese architect Itsuko Hasegawa. I was wet behind the ears and couldn’t find my angle—I was too sympathetic to his position, which was at once arde...

Jeff Alessandrelli February 11, 2021 With the Covid-19 pandemic, there have obviously been dozens of books that haven’t received the shine they might have under normal circumstances. One in particular that I’ve enjoyed is Jaydn DeWald’s essay collection Sheets of Sound, out via the UK press Broken Sleep. Discussing the author’s background as a skateboarder, as a jazz musician, as a reader, teacher and writer, Sheets of Sound lovingly meanders across 239 pages. DeWald writes how �...