There are three elements to the photograph. There is the grocery cart in the background, the white Renault hatchback in the foreground, and then at center there is the reclusive philosopher who explored literature’s impossibility. 

For a long time we wanted to get a second dog. Then we had a baby, and I had to give up this desire for a while.

For a long time I worked on an essay about a fairly obscure American film made in the seventies by an actress, the only film she directed, which she starred in herself, an essay that I published in a small journal and thought perhaps I would turn into a book.

Marilyn Minter was a photography student at the University of Florida, in Gainesville, in 1969.