Spooner, Pete Dexter’s latest creative nonfiction masterpiece, published in 2009, 469 pp. by Grand Central Publishing, steers away from his tradition of fundamentally exposing fundamental bigotry, misanthropy and corruption. Chronicling the minutest details of his turbulent childhood, in a series of quick-shot synapses, fractals come to saturate readers’ foreheads, like milk does an animal’s bones. […]
In 1999, like most baby millennials, our parents dictated the family television. In my Midwestern home, I woke up to Katie Couric and Matt Lauer’s news reports on Today before school. After I returned home, the ritutal continued. As mom prepared dinner, usually a meatloaf, buttery mashed potatoes, and a side of green beans– I’d […]
I return often to AFA Gallery, a landmark in SoHo’s historic cast iron district. SoHo has more cast-iron buildings than any other global district, and AFA occupies one of them. The way light bounces off one creature on a busy, sunny Saturday changes so wildly on a slow, rainy Monday. It only makes sense then […]
