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W. Eugene Smith’s Wichita »

My latest Paris Review piece is HERE.

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

Mary Frank »

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

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

Chaos Manor at Invisible Dog »

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

Paris Review: Tamas Janda »

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

Paris Review: Tennessee Williams Through the Eyes of Gene Smith »

My latest Paris Review Daily piece on Camino Real.

Paris Review: Letter from Guam »

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

Japan »

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 her in my Paris Review piece of last week.  Both times we saw her she bid tearful farewells to me, Momoko, and Ishikawa and she waved at us with both hands as we parted.

Kyoko Mizoguchi waving goodbye to us in Minamata, Japan. March 4, 2011.

I have a feeling my experience in Japan and this fallout will mean that I do more work there in the future.

Paris Review: Letter from Japan »

Minamata, Japan. March 2, 2011. Photo by Takeshi Ishikawa.

My new entry on Paris Review Daily comes from Okinawa, on the heels of two weeks in Tokyo and Minamata.

Superchunk in Tokyo »

HERE’s my new blog entry from Tokyo on the JLP site.

Update 2/24/11:  Here’s my new JLP blog entry “Tokyo Day 4.

Update 2/27/11:  Here’s my JLP blog entry “Tokyo Day 8.”

The Thousand Autumns of Gene Smith »

I’m departing tomorrow.  Here’s a post I put up on the JLP site today.  More posts will follow on that site and on Paris Review Daily, with links here.

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