Nigel Beale interviews Phil Hall who over the half hour mentions that closure is a reassuring mandate. It becomes dishonest about reality which is tangents. Formalists make a perfect object but by doing so point at the speaker not the world. “What you write has to be a separate event from what happened[…] create an experience.”
On art: “The problem is we’re looking for something that doesn’t exist. We’re looking for authenticity. There is no such thing as authenticity. There is either good art or bad art. Art is never about its content. It’s about its scaffolding.” ~ Chris Abani at Writer’s Almanac