“All That Happened Here” a Notable Essay in Best American Essays 2020

‘Everything else so far now seemed to have been shaped interim to my silo dreams,’ Erich Mendelsohn wrote to his wife in 1924. ‘Everything else was mere beginning.’ And thus begins my essay in Frieze braiding modernism, grain silos, capitalism and land theft in Buffalo NY as I look at Marlene McCarty’s drawings. That essay is on Best American Essays notables list for 2020.