Only connect

Dear Interview,

I was so pleased to hear Ingrid Sischy's almost incredulous tone when remarking to Camille Paglia [May 2005] that in academe, of all places, there isn't a way to discuss the most hot-button issues. In fact, I was so enthralled by the conversation that I turned to her Letter from the Editor, which I am ashamed to say I had never read before. Reading it and its message about the need for artists to connect with each other makes me say a gigantic yes!

When I read magazines such as Interview, I do so with two minds: one is that of the New York media world and the sense of powerful thought that seems to percolate from the skies above Manhattan, traveling through its office towers and down to the streets, to flavor, even feed, intellectual life and action below. "The other is on a more physical level--the beauty in Interview, for instance, of bottoms, bellies, and glares so sweetly captured. I become immersed in their allure and in the power of words, different from, but wholly at ease with, this world where I live.

Thank you. I hear you. You are eloquent.

GENE CASSIDY Framingham, MA

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