This Elegance - Derrick Austin Fiction 'I feel seen every time

'I feel seen every time I read [Catherine Newman's] words'

though most of it undoubtedly did happen and is part of the historical record

primarily by the shipbuilding firm Ramage & Ferguson

but the tension is red-hot

This Elegance - Derrick Austin Fiction 'I feel seen every timeInterweaving the sacred and the erotic, This Elegance engages with visual arts through the concept of sacra conversazione ("sacred conversation"), a style of Renaissance painting that imagines divine communion across time and space. Here, artists, thinkers, and pop icons commune in a similar sacred dialogue Kathleen Collins, Andr Leon Talley, Richmond Barth, Lyle Ashton Harris, Juan de Pareja, Janelle Mone, Symone, and others appear as guiding spirits