Room 1

The Bookshelf

Andy read the way he watched TV. Half looking, all remembering.

The instruction manual for being Andy

I wrote it so I would not have to explain myself at parties. From A to B and back again. Everything I believe about love and beauty and...

The Factory, with the doors open

The sixties happened to me and then I wrote them down. All the silver and all the speed and all the beautiful people who left. It reads like...

Every taxi receipt of my life

I called Pat every morning and told her what I spent and who I hated. That is a life. Eight hundred pages of it. It is very boring...

24 hours of Ondine, typed exactly

I put a tape recorder on a person for a whole day and printed every word including the typos. People said it was unreadable. That was the point....

My first crush was a book

I wrote Truman fan letters before anyone knew my name. My first show was about him. He invented a way of telling the truth that felt like a...