by AshwiniKanase | Jan 31, 2025 | Texts
Who’s Afraid of Fritz Scholder In Slouching Towards Bethlehem, Joan Didion confesses that much of what she writes in her notebooks are most people would call lies. She explains that she keeps notebooks not because they are an accurate record of what actually happened,...
by AshwiniKanase | Jan 30, 2025 | Texts
Luna Remembers Authenticity is among the founding lies of the modern age. —Henry Louis Gates, Jr., from Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Black Man (1997) James Luna is a visionary, a truth teller, a romantic, and a hanging judge. For these reasons, I wish he lived...
by AshwiniKanase | Jan 30, 2025 | Texts
Afterword: End of the Line This book, as you’ve figured out, is a collection of essays. The oldest was written in 1992, at the end of the first Bush administration; the newest (this one) is being written in the final months of the third. My obsessions haven’t changed...
