snoop dog holding a joint, laughing, looking right, wearing a gray winter cap and white and tan striped scarf

split shotsleft: the paperback nyrb cover of “Autobiography of a Corpse” by, which is on my to-read pile (after I finish my life in the bush of ghosts and the palm-wine drinkard)right: a black and white photograph of Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky wearing spectacles looking to the left in disbelief, as if looking at both the cover of his book, and snoop