{"id":4437,"date":"2022-01-05T21:16:25","date_gmt":"2022-01-06T05:16:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/juliafriedman.org\/?p=4437"},"modified":"2022-01-27T00:56:49","modified_gmt":"2022-01-27T08:56:49","slug":"in-memory-of-dave-hickey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/juliafriedman.org\/?p=4437","title":{"rendered":"In memory of Dave Hickey"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I wrote this piece following Dave&#8217;s passing November 12, 2021. It was published in the January 2022 issue of <em>The New Criterion<\/em> magazine. Click on the image to read the full text. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newcriterion.com\/issues\/2022\/1\/the-man-who-laughed-in-church\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"398\" src=\"https:\/\/juliafriedman.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Screen-Shot-2021-12-29-at-9.37.46-AM-400x398.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4439\" srcset=\"https:\/\/juliafriedman.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Screen-Shot-2021-12-29-at-9.37.46-AM-400x398.png 400w, https:\/\/juliafriedman.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Screen-Shot-2021-12-29-at-9.37.46-AM-768x765.png 768w, https:\/\/juliafriedman.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Screen-Shot-2021-12-29-at-9.37.46-AM.png 946w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>I met Dave in 2012, and three years later we embarked on a project based on his Facebook writings. The result was two pendant volumes, <em>Wasted Words<\/em> and <em>Dustbunnies<\/em>, which explored Hickey&#8217;s mood over the eighteen months he engaged in debates on social media. It also gave a rare glimpse into what could best be called his verbal ephemera\u2014<em>bon mots<\/em> and musings that would not necessarily make it into the critic&#8217;s honed writings. <a href=\"https:\/\/juliafriedman.org\/?p=3105\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Times Literary Supplement<\/a> published a review of the books. A series of in-conversation events in Las Vegas CAC, <a href=\"https:\/\/juliafriedman.org\/?p=3046\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Site Santa Fe<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/juliafriedman.org\/?p=3057\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">UCLA Hammer Museum<\/a> followed.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" src=\"https:\/\/juliafriedman.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/20160305_CAC_DaveHickey-10-copy-1-400x267.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4481\" srcset=\"https:\/\/juliafriedman.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/20160305_CAC_DaveHickey-10-copy-1-400x267.jpg 400w, https:\/\/juliafriedman.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/20160305_CAC_DaveHickey-10-copy-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/juliafriedman.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/20160305_CAC_DaveHickey-10-copy-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/juliafriedman.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/20160305_CAC_DaveHickey-10-copy-1-2048x1365.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><figcaption>Contemporary Arts Collective in Las Vegas, NV, 03.05.2016, Photo Credit Check Salgado<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"216\" src=\"https:\/\/juliafriedman.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Screen-Shot-2022-01-27-at-12.41.13-AM-400x216.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4488\" srcset=\"https:\/\/juliafriedman.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Screen-Shot-2022-01-27-at-12.41.13-AM-400x216.png 400w, https:\/\/juliafriedman.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Screen-Shot-2022-01-27-at-12.41.13-AM-768x414.png 768w, https:\/\/juliafriedman.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Screen-Shot-2022-01-27-at-12.41.13-AM-1536x828.png 1536w, https:\/\/juliafriedman.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Screen-Shot-2022-01-27-at-12.41.13-AM-2048x1104.png 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><figcaption>Site Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM, 04.15.2016<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/juliafriedman.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Screen-Shot-2022-01-27-at-12.51.55-AM-400x300.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4489\" srcset=\"https:\/\/juliafriedman.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Screen-Shot-2022-01-27-at-12.51.55-AM-400x300.png 400w, https:\/\/juliafriedman.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Screen-Shot-2022-01-27-at-12.51.55-AM-768x576.png 768w, https:\/\/juliafriedman.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Screen-Shot-2022-01-27-at-12.51.55-AM-1536x1151.png 1536w, https:\/\/juliafriedman.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Screen-Shot-2022-01-27-at-12.51.55-AM-2048x1535.png 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><figcaption>UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA, 05.12.2016<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wrote this piece following Dave&#8217;s passing November 12, 2021. It was published in the January 2022 issue of The New Criterion magazine. Click on the image to read the full text. I met Dave in 2012, and three years later we embarked on a project based on his Facebook writings. 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