The Sleeper
Praying with a small collection of gazettes illustrated in 1944-5 by Louise Jennings, a trans painter who lived to age 99.
I have a stack of five fragile, staple-bound magazines about 20 pages each called The Sleeper. They’re dated April 1944 to December 1945, printed on thin paper with pale pink and blue and yellow covers, duplicated through a mimeograph machine, which a kind of rotary press that prints by forcing ink through stencils on a cylinder drum. I keep these littl…
