Sublime

There were no roughnecks here. These people knew what whiskies were good, what wine was “the thing” with this food, that food, what places to go, how to dance, how to smoke, how much stress to put on love, how to dress, when to curse, and did not indulge (for the most part) in homosexuality but could discuss it without eagerness, distaste, curiosit

of? Yes, the competition in New York was steep but

senescence,”

He has a kind, round face and the relaxed, easygoing manner of someone who’s spent most of his life in California.

Poe and his partner, Tim Blum, are known for discovering artists and launching their careers.

he had offended the daily critics in the book by referring to the New York crowd as “angleworms in a bottle” and to critics as the lice that crawl on literature;

“In the future, white supremacy will no longer need white people,” the artist Lorraine O’Grady said in 2018, a prognosis that seemed, at least on the surface, to counter what James Baldwin said fifty years ago, which is that “the white man’s sun has set.”

It’s easy to escape into the aesthetic part of a larger social system and to forget that assertive, unchallenged white power often shows up in a battered old Mercedes.