Photo credit: David Barry
I.
A paleobotanist, an archaeologist, a religion scholar, and a therapist walked into a bar.
II.
The first movie I ever saw in a theater by myself was
Waking Life. It was 2001 and I was in college and I was yet again on uneasy terms with my playwright boyfriend. I went to the film angrily, as a way of making myself seem like a scarce resource. I haven’t watched the entire movie since that lonely, defiant night. I don’t remember much about it. But even now, when I’m observing an expert talk about something they care about, I perceive the speaker with the ever-wavering animated lines that characterized
Waking Life.
III.
Writing a book is a ferociously solitary endeavor...