New Weird 101

We live in America, a country obsessed with genre, category and brand. We love categorization and tags, genres, slots, labels  and subgenres that can be marketed to the masses. It's part of what makes America such a massive capitalist engine, but it's also what makes certain kinds of art hard slippery, like a bar of wet soap. I make no assumptions about my work. I write what I like and what I know, and it is driven by a wide speculative force, meaning I like to dream of the impossible, the...