Three Short Takes
With few arts of my own to rely on, I liked to visit Irv’s shop, to watch him build a chair you could actually sit on.
Planning Mrs. Scott’s Party: A Correspondence
Thank you for your letter of yesterday. I had just talked to Baroness Bilxen and she is definitely planning to come with me…
Notes Toward a Theory of Clothing
I have decided to write about clothing. I have decided clothing is the most erotic thing ever invented.
Home, or, The Quality Itself
Now first, as I shut the door,
I was alone
In the new house; and the wind
Began to moan.
from Deep France: A Memoir
A cold morning for Seattle. Since midnight in the Capitol Hill walkup, while Yves slept back down the hall, I’d kept myself at the cardboard desk, trying to write.