The Madness of Two

Nathan Neuharth exchanges letters with eleven people who have inhabited different corners of his life: lovers, artists, occultists, old friends, collaborators, fellow travelers, and ghosts from the past.What begins as conversation becomes a fragmented portrait of a life-and of the people reflected within it.Across discussions of love, divorce, childhood, punk rock, art, magick, philosophy, mental illness, politics, sexuality, parenthood, mortality, creativity, and the strange business of simply remaining alive, each correspondence develops its own reality.Some correspondents have known him for decades. Others belong to the life he is living now. One is no longer alive, his surviving letters allowing an unfinished conversation to continue beyond death. Rocky Hartberg's correspondence closes the book as both memory and testament to the influence one life can quietly have upon another.