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In the mid 1980s… Kingston Customs House Canada Customs was seizing gay porn and writing that depicted anal intercourse. The issue was raised with some urgency as sexually explicit material was necessary for spreading the word about safe sex. Yours … Continue reading →

Miriam Nichols Radical Affections: Essays on the Poetics of Outside This critique of empiricism ultimately derives from Immanuel Kant. In the Kantian tradition, the things of perception are organized by a priori categories of understanding. These are categories that are … Continue reading →

Karin Cope Passionate Collaborations: Learning to Live With Gertrude Stein For when I began really to understand something about Gertrude Stein and her difficult words, I was not contemplating the example of Stein so much as acting it out. And … Continue reading →

Towards the end of How I Read Gertrude Stein Lew Welch shares this realization: Stein has everywhere stated that she “hears” speech rhythms, and I have only recently been able to do so. It is a very exciting thing to … Continue reading →

Lisa Robertson. Thinking Space There is a series of rooms. Each room frames a table, a book, and an opening to the outside—an aperture of some sort. At times they may be called studies or observatories or libraries but they … Continue reading →

Performed by the Eagles, written by Glenn Frey and Don Henley, the song has its own Wikipedia entry. A distracted listener can easily read it as being about an absent lover. The occasion of its composition is about loss of … Continue reading →

On this day, a long post. Encouraged by my friend Fadi Abou-Rihan I lightly edited a series of emails with a view of making them available to a wider audience. Here then are the fruits of that effort September 15, … Continue reading →

An anecdote about Mary Butts and her prowess at convincing … the term “procuress” comes to mind but it is not apt. Maybe the best of Mary is gathered in the short stories Several Occasions (Wishart, 1932); and here is … Continue reading →