I always lived in old buildings, and I thought about who lived here before. You'd have to be oblivious not to.
Ben KatchorYou know how misleading an image is. You see an image in the newspaper, if they left the caption off, good luck knowing what's going on. There is something inherently misleading about images, so they need annotation.
Ben KatchorI live in an apartment building built in 1925, and it hasn't been heavily renovated, so I feel very much connected to that time and what went on in that place.
Ben KatchorReally interesting novels, they always are so demanding of you on some level that you don't fall asleep.
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