Jesse Ball relates indelible images in an incomparable reading
Nestled in one of Newcomb’s upper alcoves, unforgettable impressions of one-eyed dogs, underwater cables and white apples were spoken into being. A crowd of students, writers and instructors gathered for what was innocuously advertised as a fiction reading, but which soon became a colorful, confounding evening Monday, full of vivid prose, enigmatic poetry and paradox.