“The eye traffics in feelings, not in thoughts.” - Walker Evans. Excited to be a part of the Walker Evans retrospective at Centre Pompidou. Screening excerpts of The Nine on Thursday, 5/4!
#FBF to that time Hannah and I traveled to all corners of this crazy country. This may be Huge’s last day in the studio, but without a doubt, there are more road trips in our future.
The world lost one of the great journalists—Sergio González Rodríguez. Fearless truth-teller in defense of the hundreds of forgotten, murdered women in Juarez & major influence on Roberto Bolaño. He embodied Flannery O'Connor’s statement: “The truth doesn’t change based on our ability to stomach it.”
Fiction’s about what it is to be a fucking human being. If you operate, which most of us do, from the premise that there are things about the contemporary U.S. that make it distinctively hard to be a real human being, then maybe half of fiction’s job is to dramatize what it is that makes it tough. The other half is to dramatize the fact that we still “are” human beings, now. Or can be.
Fiction’s about what it is to be a fucking human being. If you operate, which most of us do, from the premise that there are things about the contemporary U.S. that make it distinctively hard to be a real human being, then maybe half of fiction’s job is to dramatize what it is that makes it tough. The other half is to dramatize the fact that we still “are” human beings, now. Or can be.
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David Foster Wallace, Conversations with David Foster Wallace