A Lot of Consonants

Lara Cohen was and is the coolest. If you had access to rubber cement and a xerox machine at any point during the mid- to late nineties, you know exactly what I’m talking about. And now her zine collection is archived at the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library at Duke University, which means (the finding aid says so) that a few issues of my zine, those dispatches from a lonely kid in the middle of Maine, will be available for future researchers to fondle with their lint-free gloves. 

People think I’m joking when I say that zine was the best stuff I’ve ever written, but it’s true—not in terms of quality but in terms of process and motivation. I have spent most of the ensuing years trying to work my way back to that state of optimistic absorption, where nothing mattered except the project itself and the hope of someone on the other end.

Update: Turns out I am also maintained in the legendary Arielle Greenberg’s collection. And according to this Arielle has relocated to, of all places, rural Maine, a fact that is both mindboggling and perfect.