the Sea—turn yr Back on
the Sea, go inland, to
Dogtown: the Harbor
the shore the City
are now
shitty, as the Nation
is—the World
tomorrow unless
the Princes
of the Husting the sons
who refused to be Denied
the Demon (if Medea
kills herself—Medea
is a Phoenician
wench, also Daughter
of the Terror) as J-son
Johnson Hines
son Hines
sight Charles
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Aisha Sabatini Sloan
Episode 22: “Form and Formlessness”
In an essay specially commissioned for the podcast, Aisha Sabatini Sloan describes rambling around Paris with her father, Lester Sloan, a longtime staff photographer for Newsweek, and a glamorous woman who befriends them. In an excerpt from The Art of Fiction no. 246, Rachel Cusk and Sheila Heti discuss how writing her first novel helped Cusk discover her “shape or identity or essence.” Next, Allan Gurganus’s reading of his story “It Had Wings,” about an arthritic woman who finds a fallen angel in her backyard, is interspersed with a version of the story rendered as a one-woman opera by the composer Bruce Saylor. The episode closes with “Dear Someone,” a poem by Deborah Landau.
Rachel Cusk photo courtesy the author.
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