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A Commonplace Book

Kim Chernin’s mother Rose, describing life in the Bronx Cooperative Housing Projects in the 1930s:

There was a wonderful mood in that cooperative. Something you just wouldn’t see anymore in the world. There, it was common for the children to be named Leon Trotsky Blume or Vladimir Lenin ...

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YOU HAVE TO SEE THIS: Portraits of Lawrence Weschler

YOU HAVE TO SEE THIS: Portraits of Lawrence Weschler

Recent Pieces

On Larry McMurtry,  Kabbalah, and Why I Can’t Write Fiction

The New Yorker, August 26, 1985

Harry Berger, Jr., Some Thoughts on his Passing


On artist and disability activist Riva Lehrer

A contribution to Lehrer's new memoir Golem Girl

Scylla and Charybdis: On Truly Engaging Climate Change

Two recent articles

The Uncanny Tale of Shimmel Zohar

The Atlantic

CORONA                       A Polyphonal Braiding

April-May 2020
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Convergences & Pillows

Impresario

Robert Irwin Getty Garden

Books

Audio/Visual

A Conversation about Robert Irwin’s Getty Garden with Jim Cuno

The Getty Foundation

Conversation with Federico Solmi

Luis de Jesus Gallery, LA

Humanity vs (or within) Nature: Ren with artists Opdyke, Redniss, Chalmers and Prosek

MANA Contemporary

Discussing Ethiopia and artist Elias Sime with Maaza Mengiste



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