![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In 2018, I hired her to edit an essay about my own father. As proof of the book’s noteworthiness, Negative Space was chosen as a winner of the 2019 Santa Fe Writers Project Literary Awards.ĭancyger has also done excellent work as an editor, including helming the critically acclaimed anthology of essays Burn It Down: Women Writing About Anger (2019). Their high-quality compounds the loss felt by his daughter, and experienced by the art world. And that should still happen because his work was that exceptional, as the striking and provocative reproductions curated in this hybrid memoir testify. She began this project a decade ago, her first impulse being to gather and contextualize her father’s work in the form of a monograph. Lilly is a lot like him, yet very much her own artist. Her father, a visual artist and sculptor, has passed, but he’s alive in these pages. Dancyger’s dexterous usage of time functions as a critical lens, panning in, out, and around, keeping memory fluid. Using her exceptional journalistic skills, Dancyger recounts the indelible life of Joe Schactman, her father, an artist and a heroin addict, who died when she was 12. LILLY DANCYGER’S NEW MEMOIR, Negative Space, a mixture of reportage and visual art, is a significant debut. ![]()
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