Hi everyone,
I’m Dan Visel, happy to be helping out at the Hotel St. George. For the past five years, I’ve worked at the Institute for the Future of the Book, thinking about how reading and writing are changing; you can read a post I wrote there about HSG’s most recent book here. Before that I worked as a book designer & wrote travel guides, and I also help out with Circumference, a journal of poetry in facing-page translation which appears mostly in print rather than online. I live in Jackson Heights, New York, though I originally hail from the cultural hinterland of the rural Midwest. Various writers & artists that I like off the top of my head in no particular order: Robert Walser, Gertrude Stein, William Gaddis, Marcel Proust, Marcel Duchamp, Raymond Roussel, Giorgio Morandi, John Ashbery, George Leonard Herter, Daniel Spoerri, Donald Barthelme, Jane Bowles, Ray Johnson. I can keep going but I won’t. Lately I’ve been reading Julio Cortázar and wondering why it took me so long; I’m slowly making my way through William Vollmann’s Imperial. You can inspect what’s in my library here, scrutinize what I’m listening to here, and I have an occasional online commonplace book here.
I’m looking forward to what happens here.
Hi Dan, welcome aboard.