Today is Nicole Krauss’ birthday. As part of the When I Give, I Give Myself exhibition she responded to a letter by Vincent van Gogh on the fear for the blank canvas, and, as she writes back ‘also, on a larger scale, of the “infinitely meaningless, discouraging, dispiriting blank side” that life itself always turns toward us, and which can only be countered when a person “steps in and does…
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