On each Fence Book page the “Buy the Book” link will take you to one of the below independent booksellers located across the United States. ♦ Above left: City Lights Books, 261 Columbus Avenue.San Francisco, CA 94133 (415) 362-8193. ♦ Right: The Book Loft of German Village, 631 South Third St. Columbus, OH 43206 (614) […]

Photo of Spencer credit Alex Inglizian/Experimental Sound Studio. You can read Spencer’s obituary here.  Spencer and I, working together on editing his introduction to his ESS/Fence project, bonded most strongly over our love of electronic music. He burned CD’s for me, sent them by US mail, and was an extraordinarily vast trove of knowledge across […]

⇒   Watch the video of Alyssa’s and Spencer’s live performances at ESS.   ⇒   Read Alyssa’s ESS-Archive-inspired writing as published in Fence issue 41.  ⇒    Listen to and see the audio/image supplement to Alyssa’s writing and performance from Malachi Ritscher’s Notebooks and two recordings of live concert performances by Xiu Xiu.   ⇒   Read Spencer’s […]

ACT 1, SCENE 1 Very little is happening. In fact, look around you. It’s like this every day.  Put your deodorant where you use it, not where you put it. That’s what I always say. It’s all so consequential, always leading to something else. It’s like this string that holds up the shower curtain, which […]