The 49-year-old former NBA champion with the Detroit Pistons was arrested in Oregon Thursday morning, the night after coaching his team in their season opener.

We have to begin at the end: Fanny Howe died in July. As she once wrote, “Plot can only be understood retroactively, and by the time a story is understood, most of the questions that were important earlier have been folded over into bewilderment.” She leaves behind her a bewildering and beautiful body of work; at 84, she was the author of dozens of books of experimental, polymorphic prose-poetry-philosophy, many of them out of print at the time of her death. Howe was the humblest of geniuses; a small-press star, always unreachable by the mainstream and in a perpetual state of rediscovery.