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Gene Smith’s Sink in December Harper’s
All involved in Gene Smith’s Sink figured it would be a slow burn. 2017 isn’t the ideal year for a spare, quiet, “strange” (Luc Sante) and “unorthodox” (Nate Chinen) book incommensurate in page numbers (206) with the years of work (20) that made it possible. So we’re not surprised it took three months to get a deep
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Poet Ross Gay: Gene Smith’s Sink is “lyric research”
A few years ago a respected writer familiar with my work urged me to coin a phrase for what I do. I asked him for a suggestion. He said, “indirect narrative.” I thought about it for a couple of years, modifying his idea and words to come up with “organic narrative,” meaning that my
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The Paris Review and National Sawdust Celebrate Gene Smith’s Sink
Last week The Paris Review and National Sawdust threw an event for Gene Smith’s Sink at the latter’s sublime venue in Brooklyn. A better conjoining of institutions and artists (see photos below) couldn’t be imagined for this book. A number of chapters of the book were steeped in The Paris Review Daily over the past
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Scene from Tuesday Night at NYPL
A funny thing happened in the green room before Eugene Richards and I went onstage. He told me a funny story about a recent radio interview in which his interviewer kept harping on how his content is so sad. He and I shared a laugh about it. Then I told him a story
