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Mix Tapes and Flash Cubes

The LRB Podcast

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Is Seamus More Valuable Than His Fax Machine?

The fax machine was a way of communication between people, isn't it? And the idea that it can continue to have that role even after one of the people has died. It becomes a kind of powerful ethical conundrum that we're all material. I think that I feel I felt moved to write this piece at the time when my mother was dying,. That's not a mokish question. That's just an everyday big one that we never really get away from.

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