Arts
Larissa Pham joins Medaya and Eric.. A Brooklyn-based artist and writer, Larissa's essays and criticism have appeared in The Paris Review Daily, The Nation, Guernica, and more. I first encountered her work in the excellent piece she wrote for the recent collection KINK, a piece that deals with themes of violence and desire equally reflected in the debut collection she's here to talk about today: POP SONG: ADVENTURES IN ART AND INTIMACY. Shifting between memoir and an acute attunement to various art objects and experiences in the present, POP SONG explores what it means to want a life and to strive for it: to navigate relationships, to build and rebuild a self, and to appreciate and even desperately rely upon the encounters with art that give such a life meaning. Also, Nick Pinkerton, author of Goodbye to Dragon Inn, returns to recommend The Dog of the South by Charles Portis.