Here is a battered sneaker box, tennis-court green. Inside of it are cassette tapes, their cases smudged and cloudy. Outside of it is a room in a second-floor apartment in Somerville, near Boston. 

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… lives and writes in Brooklyn. His essays, reviews, and interviews have appeared in The Village Voice, The Brooklyn Rail, The Chronicle of Higher Ed, and his Substack, Evenings with the Orchestra, among...