Royalty mostly seem like members of some anachronistic faith, like the Amish, peculiar in gilded buggies. Stacey D'Erasmo amishanachronisticbuggy Change image and share on social
I'm embarrassed to reveal that I never went to CBGB's in the '80s. I was never cool enough to be a punk, and I wouldn't have had the stamina, or the discipline, for straight-edge. Stacey D'Erasmo 80scbgbcool Change image and share on social
Readers, like writers, are essentially amoral. Arm's length will never do. We want to get closer. Stacey D'Erasmo amoralarmclose Change image and share on social
That feeling of being part of a group moving together is very powerful. It feels like it opens up a zone of possibility, a place for another self to form, also a place for a new world to form. Stacey D'Erasmo feltformgroup Change image and share on social
'The Girls,' by Lori Lansens, is a ballad, a melancholy song of two very strange, enchanted girls who live out their peculiar, ordinary lives in a rural corner of Canada. Stacey D'Erasmo balladcanadacorner Change image and share on social
One of the things I've always loved about queer culture is the openness and passionate curiosity about love, desire and the myriad forms of affectionate ties. Stacey D'Erasmo affectionateculturecuriosity Change image and share on social
My books - I kid you not - are very often shelved between DeLillo and de Sade. Which not only completely cracks me up, but it seems like an encouraging message from the universe: between those two, there's a lot of wiggle room. I feel just fine there. Stacey D'Erasmo bookcompletelycrack share on social
In each medium - popular music, literature, and visual art, respectively - the woman has broken form, shed a skin, with each phase of her career, whereas the man has returned to ever-deepening iterations of the sound or sentence or imagery with which he began. Stacey D'Erasmo artbeginbreak share on social
I never thought much about God, certainly never wondered whether God was thinking about me, until I fell in love with a Zen Buddhist priest. Stacey D'Erasmo buddhistfallgod Change image and share on social
Prior to the institutionalization of standard time, clocks were set using local meridians or local mean time, and they varied widely. Stacey D'Erasmo clockinstitutionalizationlocal Change image and share on social