Somewhere between art writing and writing writing. Published by Cultural Counsel. On hiatus.
Manhattan, NY
Joined October 2016
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John Waters: She bought one of my pieces, a really early one entitled Zapruder which was photos of Divine as Jackie in the Kennedy assassin, which could’ve been awkward since Kennedy relatives sometimes visited her apartment. affidavit.art/articles/last-…
Rachel Kushner: "I guess I was 27, which is a bit old to be an intern. But I’d only been a bartender and had never worked in an office in my life (and had never planned to)." affidavit.art/articles/last-…
An oral history of Grand Street magazine featuring Hilton Als, Rachel Kushner, Deborah Treisman, William T. Vollman, John Waters, and more. affidavit.art/articles/last-…
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I wrote about the practices of collecting, hoarding, and accumulating art for @realaffidavit affidavit.art/articles/accum…
"I grew up with an unearned pride in the New York voice. I loved the hair-splitters of baseball and Lou Reed and the guys on Fulton Street who yelled at me for asking questions about budget sneakers." - @zombiesfj
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"He also filmed the entire thing from a set of cameras he had posted all over his apartment and afterwards he had me take a pic of my face alongside my state issued ID cause he likes to post his encounters with sluts on Xtube after he’s done with them." affidavit.art/articles/covid…
"On the second week of noticing the half-eaten dog food on the kitchen counter, there was a thunder crack of an epiphany. No one had a dog!" affidavit.art/articles/covid…
"There’s something in these early experiments—their dissolution of boundaries and false truths—that speaks back to the hallucinatory instability and dread of Nixon-era America, seeming even more prescient now." - Kate Zambreno on Kathy Acker.
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"David Duchovny is or was a self-acknowledged sex addict. My ex-mother-in-law’s best friend, at the time a 55-year-old suburban paralegal, slept with Duchovny. That I know a handful of people who’ve slept with Duchovny speaks to the ambition..." affidavit.art/articles/dont-…
"Crossing the country by plane one night in late October—just months after a stunningly unwise marriage—I told none of my friends I was leaving town. I placed myself in a homemade witness protection program." @Brad___phillips on the X Files: affidavit.art/articles/dont-…
"Antonioni had read in a newspaper about a man who stole a plane, returned it, and was gunned down on the tarmac—a synecdoche for America tearing itself apart, or yearning to fly free, or both. This image was the germ of Zabriskie Point." affidavit.art/articles/spiri…
An assistant to the director spotted Mark Frechette at a Boston bus stop shouting obscenities. “He’s 20,” she told her boss, “and he hates.” Antonioni cast him immediately. He found his starlet dancing in a documentary on the counterculture. affidavit.art/articles/spiri…
“Her eyes were of a curious reddish tinge,” another broker remembered. “She could talk in a marvelous way, talk anyone around to her view.” affidavit.art/articles/invis…
“I guess I’m fortunate enough to go to real prison,” she told one journalist, “so I’ll have more material.” Read @izabellascott on heiress scammers! affidavit.art/articles/invis…
“OLGA BUYS A GOLD HONEY POT” roared one paper; “RICHEST WOMAN HATES CHRISTMAS” shrieked another. affidavit.art/articles/invis…
Kate Zambreno's new novel "Drifts" is out today from @riverheadbooks. bit.ly/2YLhJBj
Here's her piece on Marlene Dumas from our archive:
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Lucinda Williams' new album "Good Souls, Better Angels" is out today. Here's @SamStephenson12 on all the years and work and music that went into it:
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