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The American artist Paul Chan has gained international acclaim for his video work, drawings and installations that blend a novel drafting aesthetic with philosophical reflections on politics, religion, sex and life. This beautifully produced monograph, published on the occasion of Chan's highly anticipated one-person exhibition at New York's recently unveiled New Museum of Contemporary Art, presents the first significant overview of his work. Spanning from the late 1990s through today, it is named for Chan's most recent project, The 7 Lights (2005-07), a series of large-scale digital projections and drawings that "hallucinate" the Seven Days of Creation. Paul Chan was born in Hong Kong in 1973 and raised in Nebraska. Currently based in New York, he is represented by Greene Naftali Gallery and has had solo museum exhibitions at The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia; the Blanton Museum of Art, Austin; the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston; and the UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles.

Correspondence begun by Paul Padgette (then known as Paul McDonald), following his visit to Carl Van Vechten in New York, and continuing until Van Vechten's death. Their passionate, detailed correspondence was based on Padgette's great interest in Van Vechten's photos of Gertrude Stein. Includes correspondence with other friends and admirers of Van Vechten's photography, including Evan Donald Angus, who met Van Vechten in 1919; Mark Lutz, book reviewer and newspaperman from Richmond, Va., who became a close friend after meeting Van Vechten in 1931; and, Irving Paxton, a retired engineer from Baltimore, Md. and collector of books by Van Vechten, H.L. Mencken, Vincent Starrett, Edith Wharton, and Annette Rosenshine. Also includes correspondence with James Ringo, a writer, critic, composer, and translator, concerning writers and writing, and the New York and San Francisco theater and music scene, with much on Van Vechten and Stein collectors.