marginalia

The racism shows up mostly as marginalia, implied rather than prosecuted.

And because no year is complete without a bunch of Stephen Sondheim marginalia, I’ve added a few bonus tracks, including a snippet of a surprise, in his honor.

At first it appears messy, improvised and oblique — the sculptural equivalent of marginalia.

The interstitial collage elements play the role of footnotes, or more accurately, the marginalia of a slightly older, wiser reader revisiting a beloved book.

It would be five more years before “In Search” was published in full and decades before an authoritative text was established from the morass of his marginalia.