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Rebekah Frumkin

Rebekah Frumkin is the author of the novel The Comedown. She’s written for Granta, Guernica, Poetry Magazine, Pacific Standard, Outside, and In These Times.

Tripped Up

In How to Operate Your Brain, a 1993 “public service video,” the chromatic shadow of Timothy Leary’s face demands over an unceasing electronic beat that the viewer “think for yourself” and “question authority.” The video proceeds like this for twenty-nine minutes: ...