Unconventional Salvage Operations
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- What happens when a writer decides to catalog everything--the dead cat on the sidewalk when he was four, the gas pump word of the day, the PLU code for red onions, his father's last grape soda, a Ouija board session at a Jesuit university, the color of a convenience store that no longer matches Google Street View? Unconventional Salvage Operations is an experimental non-fiction work in 672 numbered fragments: part memoir, part philosophical notebook, part psychogeographic atlas. Moving between a childhood in central Massachusetts, university days in New Orleans and Indiana, and an adult life in upstate South Carolina, the book traces one mind's lifelong habit of noticing what most people discard--and refusing to let it disappear. Here you'll find meditations on freedom of speech alongside recipes for sardine melts. Dream journal entries sit next to analyses of Star Trek episodes. Gas station TV becomes an oracle. Chinese restaurant menus become ethnographic data. A handshake in a department store becomes one of the most quietly devastating farewells ever recorded. Threading it all together is a philosophical argument the author calls "vitalist aesthetic pragmatism"--the conviction that beauty needs no justification, that curiosity is its own alignment, and that the act of witnessing ordinary life with sufficient care is itself a form of resistance. For readers of David Markson, Joe Brainard, Sei Shōnagon, Maggie Nelson, Jenny Offill, and Édouard Levé. For anyone who has ever felt that the things they notice mark them as strange--and suspected that strangeness might be the point.
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