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75–On the Rue de Rome.
His letters pull me from the sea like a line from a fishing pole: there’s a wrenching, a pulling back, a removal from the comfortable, from home, from…
Joey Rubin
Feb 26
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74–It feels as if you are a time traveler.
But the writer is also him, a him he did know, later; when you were 17, heading into the world, leaving for college, he had this writer inside of him…
Joey Rubin
Feb 12
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January 2023
73–From a futon in France.
But it also eats away at a more core belief around who I am, and how this project negates or reaffirms my identity: if I truly were a writer, then I…
Joey Rubin
Jan 29
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72–A preface, in the middle of things.
What matters is, I tucked them away; aware of their power but not of what they were. Honored, confused, horrified, excited.
Joey Rubin
Jan 15
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71–This project, recalibrated.
#71. And in writing about this grief – grief for him, and grief for myself as an artist – I renovated my relationship to art.
Joey Rubin
Jan 1
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September 2022
The Joy Menu #70: Pain
And at every juncture, each time I saw a doctor or a specialist or a nurse or a phlebotomist, they’d ask “And the pain?”
Joey Rubin
Sep 11, 2022
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July 2022
The Joy Menu #69: Unknowability
“It is forgetfulness that is the fundamental problem, not memory.” — Patrick Modiano
Joey Rubin
Jul 5, 2022
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June 2022
The Joy Menu #68: Cello
In a way, while the sale was open, while the cello remained unsold, part of my father remained alive. Far from view, over the crest of the horizon, but…
Joey Rubin
Jun 20, 2022
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May 2022
The Joy Menu #67: Home
“Hey boychik,” the refined voice on the other side of the world says. “How’s school? How’s soccer? How’s the cello?”
Joey Rubin
May 15, 2022
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The Joy Menu #66: Lack
Perhaps there was comfort in the constriction, a perverse safety in the pressure. Perhaps the door served as a weighted blanket – protection from…
Joey Rubin
May 1, 2022
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April 2022
The Joy Menu #65: Movies
That was the drug, I think. That liminality, that escape, that floating, etherial disconnection — or re-connection. I wonder: how many lives did he live…
Joey Rubin
Apr 24, 2022
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The Joy Menu #64: Tears
Tears, too, like any precipitation, find their way out of one sea and into another. It all gets washed away.
Joey Rubin
Apr 10, 2022
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