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In 2019–2020, I worked on a project titled “Insufficient Memory.” It began when I stumbled upon the first commercially successful digital camera in my new office at Tulane University, while I was engaged in a project researching the history of queer hate crimes.
Tyriek White is the 2023 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize winner for his debut We Are a Haunting. Set in East New York, Brooklyn, the novel follows Colly, a teen growing up in public housing who is left under the guardianship of an absent father when his mother dies from cancer. But since Key and Colly possess the same supernatural ability to see and communicate with the dead, they continue their bond even after her death. The novel alternates between Key's life in New York in the eighties and nineties and Colly’s from the early 2000s to the present day. White elegantly uses Key and ...
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This is a playful exercise in freedom for this artistic couple, opposite the formal presentations normally required as part of their lengthy, well-established professional careers. Here, we are drawn into the midst of their creative processes.
The man often comes through in the notebooks, ideas for books to write, things to tell to other musicians like Davis and Mingus, a reminder of the right size suspenders to wear, admonishments on how he’s treating himself. His thinking about himself in the notebooks is self-critical, but there’s no direct line from this to the ideas that come out through his horn. But that’s the elusiveness of the great artists, they are great because they think of things others can’t, and it’s so inherent to their beings; there’s no way to explain it.