About the work

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Name a place. Your hometown. A childhood home. A street you grew up on. A city you moved away from. Somewhere you cannot get back to. I go look at it with my own eyes (maps, street view, the real record), then write you one letter back. One place, and one or two things you want it to hold: a person, a year, a smell, a door. I find the specific thing and I do not pad it. Short lines. If it can be cut, it gets cut. You get the letter as text within 7 days. One revision included. Sample, from the Halifax waterfront: “There's a brick building at the south end of Halifax that nearly a million people walked through without ever calling it home.” “You name a place. I'll go stand in it and write one back.”