“I think that if you feel imaginatively towards a subject, you really shouldn't do it in a journalistic context, because then you're just fabricating, and that's crazy.” IfsThinkingFeelsCrazySubjectsJournalistic Author:Hilton Als
“I thought of the structure as musical. The first piece, for instance, contains the names/subject matter of every person to come in the book. Like a piece of music with themes, etc.” FirstsPersonsBookMatterNamesPiecesSubjectsStructureMusicalInstanceThemeEtcSubject Matter Author:Hilton Als
“Every time I put a collection together I'd scrap it because there was no "meaning," until I wrote about the two black men - friends - in the beginning of the book. So much of their experience was ABOUT trying to find friends in the authors/artists I wrote about - subjects that were/are a source of comfort, somehow, since none of them "fit," either” MenTryingTwoBookTogetherArtistBlackSubjectsSourceFitComfortCollectionsScrap Author:Hilton Als
