Text Improvisation
A text and sound performance by Bonnie Jones and Stephanie Barber.
A group of drinkers sat round a table. Each begins with a full glass (a variety of different beverages and glass sizes may be employed).
Read MoreIt would be easy for conservative “culture wars” diatribes to be penned by an artificial intelligence. One imagines that it wouldn’t be too hard to come up with a rough outline of how the standard literary-critical jeremiad is composed, and to develop the software necessary to replicate it.
Read MoreI find myself here in the rather awkward position of speaking from two different perspectives, one, that of the novelist, the other, that of the critic.
Read MoreThe tea should be strong. For a pot holding a quart, if you are going to fill it nearly to the brim, six heaped teaspoons would be about right...
Read MoreThe thing about new blooms is that they tend to bleed— / Those petals birthed / hugging close / that come warmer weather are tricked into jumping away...
Read MoreI spent a good part of my childhood at home staring outside my bedroom window, following the trail of planes approaching the nearby Paris airport in the sky from my banlieue. I envied the passengers...
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