Doc 072: Melissa Anderson
The Washington, D.C. dyke bar where I was a habitué from roughly 1992 to 1995 had a most incongruous name: the Hung Jury. The club was located in the city’s central business district. Apparently, during the workweek, it served as a lunch spot for white-collar professionals, a cohort that would have included the seemingly billions […]
Doc 071: Jordan Cronk
“What was old has been destroyed. Images of things that aren’t there anymore mean a lot to those of us who live in Los Angeles, and practically nothing to everyone else.” Los Angeles Play Itself, Dir. Thom Andersen (2003) While Covid-19 can assume ownership over many cultural upheavals, it can only stake partial claim on the many developments that were already underway in […]
Doc 070: Tao Lin
A former address, 2010. Tao Lin is the author of ten books of prose and poetry. His fourth novel, Leave Society, was published by Vintage in August 2021. His can be found at https://taolin.us.
Doc 069: Travis Jeppesen
Locked down [Source] Goodbye Shanghai I’m writing this in the empty lanehouse apartment in the former French Concession that has been my home since I moved to Shanghai just over three years ago. The words will not come easy. They once did. I used to love this place. But like most things around here, it […]
Doc 068: Samara Lubelski
NYC from a certain time ruled. Downtown NYC—the E. Village, Lower East Side, and Soho—when I was born and raised there. Early days of textile factories and the occasional artist cohabitation. Empty spaces in the late 60s/early 70s. No walls/no heat during off commercial hours. Dead silence after 5PM. Night time was the best time […]