“The granular dimension of time is the secret to bug music. I don’t just mean the music bugs make, but something wider and deeper, the ‘bug music’ aspect of life, or the bug and the glitch hiding inside all music.”—David Rothenberg The peripatetic, protosurrealist writer and translator Lafcadio Hearn had a severe case of myopia. […]
Author Archives: Leah Mandel
… is a writer in New York. Her work has appeared in Real Life, WSJ, Crack, Pitchfork, and more.
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A Brighter Cave
“We have to find the Mystical Man,” my father said, in a room of Renaissance paintings on the ground floor of the recently reopened Frick Collection. Which Mystical Man? “He used to be here. You’ll recognize him.” We ventured upstairs to the newly accessible second floor, by way of the old staircase, once perpetually roped […]
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Jester’s Privilege
ACT I He’d never been to the opera, and I’d never been to the opera alone. Actually, I had never been to the opera without my father, and I was pretending to still be in love with my boyfriend even though I knew that I wasn’t, so I took him as my date. We’d almost […]