This drawing is of a crowd at an Esopus event in May 2016 at BookCourt bookstore. It’s from a photo taken minutes before I began a conversation with Esopus 23 contributor Karl Ove Knausgaard (My Struggle)—and only a few months before BookCourt, a literary institution in the Cobble Hill neighborhood of Brooklyn, was closed by its owners after 35 years of operation. They sold the property to a real estate developer (who, as it turns out, had evicted nearly 500 artists from a complex of warehouses in Gowanus the year before in order to create space for offices). The BookCourt space, the facade of which has since been destroyed, has been repurposed as condominiums.