My new book, Notes from the Center on Public Policy, from
The Altered Scale press, is now available for purchase online through the
Publisher’s Graphics Bookstore.
Of the book, Rob Halpern writes,
Recalling Georges Perec’s Things: A Story of the Sixties, Wallace’s
devastating Notes from the Center on Public Policy addresses itself to a
time in which “there were no things, only claims about things,” a time
contemporary with our own but addressed from a strange temporal distance whose
past tense assumes the quality of our fossilized present suspended in an
arrested dialectic. In Wallace’s stunningly calibrated sentences, subjective
interiority has been knocked out by a semblance of its own objectivity,
hollowed by soiled calculation, made cavernous by ruin. Were the sun to explode
and all go dark, these Notes would remain like a ghostly inventory of
all that will have been here, an acutely registered paradigm containing all our
fungible particulars, “not like dust but like the memory of dust.”
Thanks to James Meetze for the
cover design.
