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The Patio and the Index
Tan Lin

A digital project, part of Autoportraits, Counterfactuals
  • Tan Lin is the author, most recently, of 7 Controlled Vocabularies and Obituary 2004. The Joy of Cooking: and Insomnia and the Aunt. The recipient of a Getty Distinguished Scholar Grant and a Warhol Foundation/Creative Capital Arts Writing Grant to complete a book on the writings of Andy Warhol, he is also working on a novel called Our Feelings Were Made by Hand.
“The Patio and the Index” was produced by Triple Canopy as part of its Immaterial Literature project area, supported in part by the Brown Foundation, Inc. of Houston, the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, and the New York State Council on the Arts. Left-hand map by Clare Churchouse, scanned by Anthony Lofton; right-hand map by Dan Visel.
Tags: Death, Fiction, Mythology
14 Counterfactuals
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  • The Canticle of Skoozle, by James McCourt
  • Like on the Subject of the Icebreak, by Ish Klein
  • The Sacred Prostitute, by Mina Loy with CF
  • Man / Man / Grimace / Grimace / Pivot / Pivot, by Stuart Sherman
  • Years Ago Before the Nation Went Bankrupt, by David Wojnarowicz
  • Calamities, by Renee Gladman
  • The Collected Lies of AK & All Sizes Fit One (for Peter), by Aaron Kunin
  • The Venus Problem, by Lisa Robertson
  • Rump Steak with Onions, by Rachel Harrison
  • Études, by Florine Stettheimer
  • The Patio and the Index, by Tan Lin
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