Michael Martone, who never forgives or forgets, has ransacked memory lane to reveal evidence of a photo session with the author (in the basement of the Cliff House) while he (Martone) was visiting San Francisco some years ago to help conduct a ZYZZYVA writers workshop.
A Total Junker begins with a selfie and concludes with an aye. The chronology is disjunct. Each slice demands its own format.
1 Half Junk (age 71-72)
a year on Facebook
2 An Old Junker (age 66-70)
blog novel
3 Clunker Junker (age 30)
protometamemoir
4 The Junkman Cometh (age 5-10)
family saga—scrapbook of a time, a place
5 Newsjunkie (age 24-28)
journalism
6 The Junkpile (age 70, 38, 35, 34, 27, 18, 8)
fiction
7 Junker’s Blues (age 31)
a summer’s journal
8 Dear Howard (age 41-46)
epistolary novel
9 Junkets (age 72, 23, 33, 71)
photoessay
10 Yo Junker (age 73)
travelogue
11 Junker’s I (age 74)
typographic tale
