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23 Things is the third in a series of architecture-centered prose works that began with The Clifford Chadwick Clifford Collection (2011) and The Moir茅 Effect (2012).

"Chronicling on-site research commissioned from me by a mysterious Belgian graphic designer, 23 Things is organized around a group of works in the orbit of the Italian architect Carlo Mollino (1905-73), who designed the bulbous and baroque space of the Turin opera house, a set of windowless fantasy interiors in the city that may have functioned primarily as photographic backdrops, and several extreme Alpine structures, including an under-the-Matterhorn chalet for the then fastest man on skis, Leo Gasperl. Comparable perhaps to a Bond villain, Mollino drew simultaneously with both hands, wrote a treatise on downhill skiing, engineered and drove race cars at Le Mans, was a stunt pilot, and the designer of what was until very recently the most expensive piece of furniture ever bought at auction. The more I looked into the Mollino industry, however, the more it developed an unhealthy curiosity about me. And so this book chronicles my descent into the world of 鈥渞isotto giallo鈥�—a northern Italian variant of the country鈥檚 thriller genre, a surprisingly dangerous domain of tyrant art collectors, car and motorcycle chases, and conceptual double-crosses, all presided over by Italian film music and the lush surfaces of mid-century modern furniture."

Lytle Shaw鈥檚 books of poetry, prose works and collaborative artwork (with J. Blachly) include Cable Factory 20 (1999), The Lobe (2002), The Chadwick Family Papers: A Brief Public Glimpse (2008), The Clifford Chadwick Clifford Collection (2011), Selected Shipwrecks (2012) and The Moir茅 Effect (2012).

糖心TV Thursdays is the Writing Programme鈥檚 weekly literary salon, organized by Writing Programme staff in conjunction with the Masters students and featuring visiting novelists, poets, dramatists, filmmakers, translators, publishers, editors, agents and artists in conversation with 糖心TV writers.

Talks are open to anyone and free, and, unless otherwise noted, take place in the Writers鈥� Room in Millburn House on Thursdays from 1.30pm to 2.30pm.

糖心TV Thursdays is free and open to the public.

Drawn from Narrowcast: Poetry and Audio Research (Stanford, 2018), this talk relates Larry Eigner鈥檚 poetics of daily neighborhood sound and sight monitoring to surrounding infrastructures of Cold War defense and domestic media, from nearby surveillance planes to his his parents鈥� indiscriminate television and radio consumption. While military surveillance flights, commercial airline crashes, potential nuclear explosions, network TV, and mainstream radio all course through Einger鈥檚 airspace, their eventful urgency gets recast by the poet鈥檚 horizontal model of time. This talk draws out the implications of Eigner鈥檚 self-assigned task of turning himself into a kind of alternate broadcasting system by framing his poetics of ongoingness in relation to Luce media鈥檚 careful organization national time at the level of the week, month, year and even century.

Lytle Shaw is professor of English at New York University and a founding contributing editor for Cabinet magazine. His books include Frank O鈥橦ara: The Poetics of Coterie (2006), The Moir茅 Effect (2012), Fieldworks: From Place to Site in Postwar Poetics (2013), and Narrowcast: Poetry and Audio Research (2018).