[Katz] reprises the pleasure of everything he has ever written, and
yet it is utterly singular. No one who cares about America's literary
and art scene in the sixties should fail to read it.--R. M. Berry,
author of Frank
Employing the fine structure constant that has tantalized physicists for
decades, celebrated novelist Steve Katz conjures his life story from 137
discreet, shuffled memories of art, travels, reflections, and
confusions. Here are sculpture and teepees, Western mountains, Eastern
pilgrimages and, throughout, artists' lives: Kathy Acker, Philip Glass,
Vladimir Nabokov, Richard Serra, and a catalog of others Katz knows and
knew.