Experimental, modern writing is vanishing from the more commercial publishing houses like Random House. More of these works are being printed and sold by smaller independent presses who can take risks. Dawn Raffel’s writing is one of the last titles edited by Gordon Lish, a renowned lover of the bizarre and brilliant. It is list-like in form, minimal and dark. This background image is one that I’d been saving for a while. It is the base of the old stat camera. The line art is like the line of a long division. They run across the entire surface.