First up, "Dream Street: W. Eugene Smith's Pittsburgh Project" is one of the most tantalizing and daunting compendiums I've ever seen.
PHOTOGRAPH BY JEFFREY JENKINS FROM THE BOOK "DAVID SEDARIS DIARIES: A VISUAL COMPENDIUM" May 5 , 1987I told Dad I was disappointed that I wouldn't be graduating in a cap and gown — the Art Institute doesn't swing that way — and he said, "I've got your old cap and gown from high school.
I recently posted about the compendium film I am doing "Where Kittens Wed and Birds Lament" in conjunction with the book and here at 4 in the morning I find myself awake with a few more "meditations" on the significance of Potter's work.
PHOTOGRAPH BY JEFFREY JENKINS FROM THE BOOK "DAVID SEDARIS DIARIES: A VISUAL COMPENDIUM" June 28 , 1988I got the job teaching a writing workshop at the Art Institute, and I owe it all to Jim, and to Evelyne, who typed up my résumé.
PHOTOGRAPH BY JEFFREY JENKINS FROM THE BOOK "DAVID SEDARIS DIARIES: A VISUAL COMPENDIUM" October 10 , 1989I worked four different jobs this week — school, Betty, Evelyne, and Shirley — and during the last three of them I fantasized about moving to New York and living in the apartment of that drug dealer I visited last June.
"Schoolgirls" is among many wonderful examples of Brinkley's work that didn't make it into this slender compendium, which I hope opens the door for subsequent volumes (Brinkley's complete drawings would probably fill ten books).
Carver may well have regretted, to some degree, the way a number of his stories appeared in "What We Talk About," and, in the compendium "Where I'm Calling From," which appeared a few months before he died, he republished three stories in their "original" form.
While we wait, "Witness" is a compendium of scenes I had hoped never to see again.
But somehow Mr. Ratner made everything come together, and the segment took its place as one of the 11 shorts in a compendium titled "New York, I Love You".
