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...When you write the truth, you ruffle some feathers,” Sawyer-Lauçanno said. “Some people want to preserve their notion of Cummings. I was obligated to tell the truth and not gloss over his darker and less salient aspects...
Rather, Orlean began with a clear idea of what she wanted to write and then, to put it bluntly, just started writing about it. True, luck may have had something to do with it, not to mention the practical savvy to know that her approach would catch...
...good idea went far. Since publishing Saturday Night, Orlean has added a long list of titles to her repertoire. In addition, she has continued to write for an array of magazines, from Rolling Stone to Esquire...
...Carpenter Center, one, P.M. Wentworth, was apparently convinced that he was a medium between Earth and extra-terrestrial worlds; another, James Castle, was born unable to hear or speak and spent his entire life in rural Idaho, where he never learned to read or write; and a third, Martin Ramirez, spent thirty years incarcerated in a California state mental institution. The marginal status of these artists—their work is often dubbed “outsider” art—makes their work difficult to talk about. But we should try to talk about it anyway, both because...
...work of James Castle provides the superlative example of meaningful intensity. Born deaf and mute and never able to read or write, his drawings were his only form of communication with the external world. With no access to art supplies of any kind, Castle spent his life drawing on scraps of found paper—ranging from envelopes to flattened matchbooks—using pigment he created by combining oily soot from his wood burning stove with his own saliva. This is a man who needed to make art so badly that literally nothing could stop him; the sheer intensity...