Cover the City
<p>In Lucy Ives’ new novel, <a href="https://www.graywolfpress.org/books/life-everywhere" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank"><em>Life is Everywhere</em></a>, she writes: “Everyone who has ever lived was born into something that was already taking place.”</p>
<p>As children in New York City in the 1970’s, we were born into a world covered with paint. Walls, baseboards, mouldings, even radiators might be six or seven layers deep with it, architectural edges and corner blurred into globs, approximate shapes. Sometimes you’d find paint over old black-and-white checkerboard tile on the floor of a bathroom, or covering leaky pipes beneath a sink. Old landlord strategy: throw on another heavy coat. It might be holding the building together.</p>
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