I’ve been a columnist at 3 Quarks Daily for five years. The result is a collection of essays, interviews, excerpts from works-in-progress, and in-depth conversations with artists and writers on the creative process.
Recent essays have included The Shameless Gaze; On Fallow Land, Fairies, and Phillip Jenninger’s Controversial Speech Before the West German Parliament; Eugenics and the Biological Justification of Economic Exploitation in Southern Italy; Rebellion; and Musings on Exile, Immigrants, Pre-Unification Berlin, Trauma, Naturalization, and a Native Tongue. I’ve also migrated a few of my essays in literary criticism, among them on the authors Lydia Davis, Don DeLillo, László Krasznahorkai, and Dubravka Ugrešić.
I’ve talked to artist Joy Garnett about her famous Egyptian poet and beekeeping grandfather; David Krippendorff about his exploration of the subjects of home and identity; Patricia Thornley about the layers of American identity in her video installation work; German author Ally Klein about her literary debut, “Carter”; Liesl Schillinger about literature and politics; and my editor, Christopher Heil, about the German edition of “A Lesser Day,” “Wie viele Tage” (Droschl 2018).
I’ve written about reading, mass shootings, and about the complex work of Alyssa DeLuccia and the balancing act it performs between photography, installation, and collage. There’s also a conversation with Myriam Naumann that explores the connecting points between my book “A Lesser Day” and an installation I exhibited a few years ago at the Berlin project space Manière Noire, titled “The Ethnic Chinese Millionaire.”
The series can be found in its entirety here.
Alyssa DeLuccia, Furchtlos und Dominant
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