Giacinto Scelsi intuited the double negative of sound one day while playing a single note on the piano over and over again, shortly after suffering a nervous breakdown. The decades of music that would follow would impact the very concept of the "musical".
Lyn Hejinian's new book, Saga/Circus, is considered alongside the saga of Herbert Reco's circus.
While I wait to hear back from MFA fiction programs -- I am expecting nine more rejection letters -- I am not writing short stories, barely reading, and the New Yorker bill has laid to waste. My reading list is following suit. Afraid of being told I can’t write, lately I’ve been reading
