Undercurrents

<p>Richard Skinner's <em>Undercurrents</em> is a hybrid essay collection that brings together literary criticism memoir cultural commentary and music writing in a loose associative structure. Moving from Proust's memory theory to Talking Heads' <em>Remain in Light</em> from Renaissance nuns to Eisenstein's montage Skinner's prose is expansive yet precise attuned to the connective tissue between art forms ideas and personal experience. The voice is intimate but critically rigorous allowing space for reverie close reading and autobiographical fragments. The result is a rich idiosyncratic meditation on narrative perception and the patterns that shape a creative life.</p>