AN IDLER’S DIARY
by Charlie Finch



In his new collection of New Yorker columns, entitled Let’s See (Thames & Hudson), Peter Schjeldahl writes of wandering the East Village with David Hammons, trying to imagine riffraff like a roll of aluminum foil in a restaurant doorway as art. On the other hand, F. Scott Fitzgerald advised in Afternoon of an Author that "it is not good to go out without a destination".

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