It worked.  Or, at least, it failed productively.  You can see more photos from Chaos Manor photographer Kate Joyce HERE and from the Invisible Dog’s Simon Courchel HERE.
You can read a preview of the shows by Dawn Chan for Paris Review Daily HERE.  For the August 24 press release go HERE.
Now, working with Chris McElroen [...]

I just finished a 12-part series about my affinity for late night sports talk radio for The Morning News.
Part 12: Better in the Dark.  11/9/10.
Part 11: Homage to Terrence Malick, Part Two.  10/24/11.
Part 10: Whose Fantasy is this, Anyway? 10/10/11.
Part 9: Los Tiempos van Cambiando.  9/30/11.
Part 8: Everyone Gets A Go.  9/22/11.
Part 7: The 5 [...]

A conversation between Sam and Japanese-American writer Roland Kelts following Sam’s trip to Japan earlier this year was published at A Public Space this month.  The conversation was transcribed by Hank Stephenson.

The (Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill) Triangle’s alt-weekly, the Independent, honored me with one of their annual arts awards this week.  Pretty good article.  Aaron Greenwald’s evocation of Studs Terkel and John Dos Passos is generous; Terkel’s always been a hero of mine and the latter’s work influenced the varied documentary-narrative structures of the JLP book.

My latest Paris Review piece is HERE.

My new Paris Review piece on artist Mary Frank is HERE.

Here is my new piece about Tamas Janda in Paris Review Daily.

My latest Paris Review Daily piece on Camino Real.

My latest Paris Review Daily piece is a letter from Guam reporting on the second half of my Japan/Pacific trip.

There’s a pit in my stomach from the earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear fallout in Japan.  I spent 18 wonderful days in that country and flew out of Tokyo to Saipan two days before the earthquake.  I went through my recent pictures from there and found this one of Kyoko Mizoguchi in Minamata.  I wrote about [...]