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.
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Sigrid Nunez
Two Paintings by Ross Bleckner
- Ping Chong and Pablo Vela by Allen Frame
- Horton Foote by Stuart Spencer
- David Deutsch by Georgia Marsh
- Graham Swift by Patrick McGrath
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Ross Bleckner, Crocodile Tears, 1985, oil on linen, 48 × 40 inches. Courtesy of Mary Boone Gallery.
Ross Bleckner, Untitled, 1985, oil on linen, 48 × 40 inches. Courtesy of Mary Boone Gallery.
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Originally published in
BOMB 15,
Spring 1986
Graham Swift, Horton Foote, Ping Chong & Pablo Vela, and David Deutsch.
