Memories and Fragments and Words: A Conversation With Wendy C. Ortiz and Sean H. Doyle

Memories fragment. We look back on our past selves and try to piece together the shards of old identities, a kind of retrospective forensic investigation, and exhumation of who we used to be. That sense of summoning the people we used to be is exemplified in two recent books: Wendy C. Ortiz’s Hollywood Notebook and Sean H. Doyle’s This Must Be the Place. Both books left me with a lot to ponder, both emotionally and stylistically. Over the course of […]

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