Like many writers, I feel centered when I write, or it might be better to say, when I don’t write, when I can’t write for whatever reason, I feel, frankly, de-stabilized. It’s dangerous for me not to write.
—
Sigrid Nunez
Portrait of Maurice Grosser by Virgil Thomson
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Virgil Thomson, Portrait of Maurice Grosser, 1969. Courtesy of Vincent Fitzgerald.
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Originally published in
BOMB 14,
Winter 1986
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