The Invisible Dog Art Center. Brooklyn. September 16-17, 2011. Photo by Kate Joyce.

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 and the Chaos Manor creative collective, the goal is to see if we can make it a sustained and growing concern.

Photo by Kate Joyce

I just finished a 12-part series about my affinity for late night sports talk radio for The Morning News.

Pamlico River, Hawkins Beach, outside Bath, North Carolina, looking west. October 2011.

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.m. Pugilist.  9/9/11.

Part 6: Before Sunrise Nobody Cares about Tennis. 9/2/11.

Part 5: Into the Heart of Things. 8/24/11.

Part 4: Homage to Terrence Malick. 8/12/11.

Part 3: Everyone’s Relative.  8/2/11.

Part 2: Voices in the Country.  7/22/11.

Part 1: The First Viola Player in the New York Phil is a Bum.  7/13/11.

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.

Durham Bulls Athletic Park, last week in August, 2012. Photo by Kate Joyce.

Over the past eight days I’ve been experimenting with a small team of colleagues on a pilot project called Bull City Summer: A Season at the Ballpark and Beyond, which would be focused on the AAA baseball team the Durham Bulls in 2012.  You can read more about the project HERE.

Clark seated at piano backstage at Syria Mosque for Night of Stars event, 1946. Courtesy Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh; Heinz Family Fund; © 2004 Carnegie Museum of Art, Charles “Teenie” Harris Archive.

Yesterday I wrote a JLP blog entry, “Sonny Clark’s Birthday,” in memorial of his birth and anticipating my new piece on Clark that will be published in Tin House magazine’s Fall issue.  The New Yorker’s Richard Brody picked up on my blog entry and wrote one entitled, “Sonny Clark at Eighty.”  I’m grateful to Brody.

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.

Wichita, ca. 1900. Courtesy The Wichita State University Special Collections Library.

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

Mary Frank's studio, NYC, 2011. Photo by Kate Joyce

I just posted a JLP blog report on last week’s proceedings at Invisible Dog in Brooklyn.

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