Monthly Archives: May 2006

Shards

By Jeremy Denk | Published: May 20, 2006
This last week in New York was supposed to be an organized and organizing diving board for the summer. Instead, it was a frenzied jumble of experiences, which I grabbed at uselessly like a tray full of dishes I have dropped. No way to hold on to any of them: they slip and [...]
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Adorno

By Jeremy Denk | Published: May 15, 2006
“The maturity of the late works of significant artists does not resemble the kind one finds in fruit. They are, for the most part, not round, but furrowed, even ravaged. Devoid of sweetness, bitter and spiny, they do not surrender themselves to mere delectation. They lack all the harmony that the classicist [...]
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Happy Mother’s Day

By Jeremy Denk | Published: May 14, 2006
In accordance with the Denk Law of Bags and Possessions, the outer pocket of my new “hip” shoulder bag is now filled with the pulverized remains of a Digestive Biscuit. No blender or food processor, no matter how powerful, could attain the sheer level of dispersion that simple Denkage is able to achieve, through [...]
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Novels, Ghosts

By Jeremy Denk | Published: May 10, 2006
The ghosts of ten thousand take-out meals hover in my kitchen, a haunted cubicle. I wander into the apartment one day; I’m innocently staring out the window, when quietly, secretly, a vindaloo from 2002 calls to me, a wild vindaloo downed with beer and a giggle, the memory of my friend [...]
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