Finding Mememo: A Book in Search of an Author

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Finding Mememo: A Book in Search of an AuthorFinding Mememo: A Book in Search of an Author opens with a fall. Hy Grader, called Mememo, drops from the balcony of the Cliff Dwellers, Chicago's storied art and literary club, and the fall rings against three earlier ones: his father's death seven years prior, the New York artist Ana Mendieta's death in 1985, and a strange attempted suicide Hy witnessed at the Art Institute of Chicago five months before. At more than 670 pages and illustrated

Poloncic came to fiction in 2012 after a recording career as A Tomato A Day

working out the curious esoterics of Thomas Carlyle's Sartor Resartus and recalling the underground raving of Dostoevsky's antihero in Notes from Underground

companion to The Iguanas of Heat

Hugunin's photographic art criticism into one volume

" It is a mockumental work

Eckhard Gerdes's editorial description puts it as the trajectory of a single breath: an opening inspiration (the breathing-in of a whole life as material)

'What is Art

The title states the editorial premise: "belighted" prose

and Modus Tollens

punctuated by verbal hijinks

The factually fictional world of the book treats meaning as the activity of comprehension — something to be made

prose that sometimes reads like a song

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