My new nonfiction project, Opacities: On Writing and the Writing Life, is now available for preorder. Drawing on letters and private notebooks, the book explores literary friendship, the experience of publishing, and above all writing–writing as it exists far from publication and publicity. The cover adopts an art piece by Kumiko Kanai, who is mentioned in the book, and whose sister, Mieko Kanai, is one of the many writers I quote and include in a literary community that exists only on the page.