Joe: A Memoir of Joe Brainard

“When someone we love dies, most of us do something to keep them from completely vanishing. We summon up memories of them, we talk about them, we visit their graves, we treasure photographs of them, we dream about them, and we cry, and for those brief moments they are in some way with us. But when my friend Joe Brainard died, I knew I was going to have to do something beyond all these.”

So begins Ron Padgett’s warm, conversational memoir—the unlikely and true story of two childhood friends, ...