Summary: Hear author Rachel Levitsky read from her new novel, <em>The Story of My Accident Is Ours</em>, during late hours for B. Wurtz's exhibition, "<a href="http://http://www.canopycanopycanopy.com/programs/83" target="_blank">History Works</a>" at <a href="http://www.bureau-inc.com/" target="_blank">Bureau</a>. “History Works” consisted of three new sculptures, each paired with a photograph that distorts the scale of the object or confounds perspective, echoing the artist’s seminal Photo/Object series. An iteration of Wurtz's project, also titled <a href="http://canopycanopycanopy.com/18/history_works">"History Works,"</a> was published in issue 18 of Triple Canopy. <br><br> As Rachel argues, in <a href="http://www.canopycanopycanopy.com/updates/259" target="_blank">a recent interview with Triple Canopy deputy editor Lucy Ives</a>, "I emphatically don’t buy into the notion that avant-garde writing is inaccessible. That notion makes me nuts. There is parochialism in both mainstream writing and avant-garde writing, by which a set of requirements becomes more important than the power of intervention. I think the role of the avant-garde is not to represent the present in past tense terms, but rather to make the present in present tense forms." Experience these present tense forms aloud!
