Radiant Fog

Radiant Fog is a sparkling collection of short personal essays written in San Francisco and New York between 2003 and 2007. Many of them first appeared, in slightly different form, in DeCapite's Radiant Fog column in angle magazine. This edition includes three essays that have never before appeared in print and a new preface by the author.

"This is a reminder of what art is all about, the visceral and the intellectual—the thrill of theory (the flâneur, of course, theorizes as he goes, as he ponders produce for sale or snippets of overheard drama) and the scintillation of a challenge (how to frame a scene, what words to use to render down experience) and the ache and rush and drop and sometimes drone of human feeling (Cézanne here offers a ready example: it’s not enough to see, to represent what one sees, one must also feel and somehow set and convey that feeling). . . . This is a book that will prompt you to head out and take a walk through your city and a book, one better, that will help you see and feel that city in a new way."
—Spencer Drew, decomP magazinE

"Radiant Fog is the brand-new collection from a wonderful writer, Mike DeCapite. His prose gleams like found metal objects (scissors, knives, etc.) stumbled upon in vacant lots this guy can write!"
—Ron Kolm, the Unbearables View Less