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The Bigness of Things surveys the intersection of New Narrative, San Francisco's queer-and-punk-infused writing avant-garde, and visual culture, through photographs and essays on visual art, literary journals, and film. I worked as editor and designer for this survey text, which accompanied the “Communal Presence” conference at UC Berkeley.
FROM THE EDITOR’S INTRODUCTION
The rich tapestry of film, visual art, and writing that emerged in the San Francisco Bay Area in the period before the destruction wrought by the AIDS epidemic is evidence of the variety of this efflorescence: like New York’s slightly earlier downtown scene, or Paris of the 1920s, San Francisco was fertile ground for many arts flourishing together…The essays in this volume begin to open up this archive, showing a variety of engagements with the small press publications of this period. We turn to a younger generation of scholars and writers and are invigorated by how these texts resonate in their readings.
The Bigness of Things surveys the intersection of New Narrative, San Francisco's queer-and-punk-infused writing avant-garde, and visual culture, through photographs and essays on visual art, literary journals, and film. I worked as editor and designer for this survey text, which accompanied the “Communal Presence” conference at UC Berkeley. 