Artists tell stories about their stories—write about idiosyncratic histories, side interests or obsessions, curiosities and unknowns. Lateral, divergent thinking can produce ideas that change course, that shift the direction of a project or a practice. All the stories in this issue are written by artists: some detail the day-to-day aspects of one’s personal life; others mine obscure archives to find meaning. These oblique, seemingly tangential, interests offer different ways of understanding artists and their objects of study, especially in a time of flux.