Pop Song: Adventures in Art and Intimacy

Pop Song is a book about love and about falling in love-with a place, or a painting, or a person-and the joy and terror inherent in the experience of that love. Plumbing the well of culture for clues and patterns about love and loss-from Agnes Martin's abstract paintings to James Turrell's transcendent light works, and Anne Carson's Eros the Bittersweet to Frank Ocean's Blonde-Larissa Pham writes of her youthful attempts to find meaning in travel, sex, drugs, and art, before sensing that sh...