A Brunch Encounter

Bob (Robert Glück) came by our table at Cafe Flore to congratulate me on Bell Book & Scandal saying many nice and insightful things as he does so well. During our brief (chat our food has just arrived and Bob was on his way out) Bob asked who had put it together. In the course of my answer a series of connective loops emerged.

Chris Komater of course as Bob's once boyfriend. But then Emily Wilson (Chris's friend) whom I had met in Camille Roy's workshop (Camille one of the Bob's son's Reese's mothers) and one of the heirs to Bob's legendary workshop(s). Emily with whom I now participate in Dodie Bellamy's workshop (Dodie being an early heir/part of the original workshop scene at Small Press Distribution when it was a bookstore and mattered in the lit scene in SF. And then of course following David Christensen with whom I shared many of Dodie's workshops and an admiration for the whole original New Narrative crowd including Bob and Kevin Killian all of whom David discovered on his own unlike my drifting in through the SF State MFA program where I first met Bob.

And the connections within this set of people: shared projects, books, exhibitions and all part of the scene that sometimes does not feel as tightly bound as this encounter suddenly made it seem to me.