 A series of 23 essays written between 1998 and 2003, mostly in her column "Torpor" in the magazine Artext, "Video Green" is dense with the literary, the personal, and the culturally marginal.A few of the collection's notable essays "not" about L.A. include the elegiac "Posthumous Lives", about the performance artist Penny Arcade's loving curation of the estate of the filmmaker Jack Smith, and "How to Shoot a Crime," about Kraus's 1987 film of the same name.The volume's first essay and its lengthiest, "Art Collection" follows the idea of collecting through L.A.'s M.F.A.