Because I've long been friends with the New Yorker's former pop critic Sasha Frere-Jones, and because I appear briefly as a character in his new book, this encomium is likely suspect. Nonetheless, I'm compelled to declare my mesmerized admiration for Earlier, Sasha's singular fusion of memoir, essay, aphorism, and prose poetry. "Intentionality," a somewhat representative excerpt, can be read at the New York Review of Books. Sasha is now writing about the gentleman below.
