Tag: Erica Wright

In this Q&A, Greene discusses her frustration at how politics and religion merge in small-town Tennessee.

The Vicious Kind is a tense dark comedy…and a warning to get more sleep.

A humiliating night becomes life altering as Wright experiences Merwin’s “negative capability” for the first time.

At once magical realism, post-modernism, and science fiction, Carter’s work defies categorization.

Writers are lovers, and critics are masturbators.

This issue’s featured poet on galactic collisions, scientific verse, and poetry’s archaeological powers.

It might be more than 500 pages long, but this book zips along like the best of its lighter kin.

This book is really a sneaky lesson on poetic forms and how great they are. Like in those commercials where parents lie about the vegetable content of a particular snack.

This imaginative film is touched with just the right amounts of humor and pathos.

There are amazing writers who can make converts of even the most staunch opponents of verse.

This film is a haunting consideration of what vampirism might look like without the dietary alternatives of Tru Blood or deer meat.

Proceed with caution, but do proceed to Jorge Drexler’s infectious album.

This TV series is done like a good spy drama: no flashy special effects, just film noir twists.

“I blame James Fenimore Cooper for rampant literary disinterest in the United States.”

A fairy tale which fits in your pocket.

An author’s solitary retreat is interrupted by a sinister mystery.

If you can’t make it to her reading on Monday, you should probably get your hands on Adrienne Rich’s masterpiece, Diving Into The Wreck.

Engaging and inspiring books to help sharpen your poetic craft.

Okay, so all poets are obsessed with death, but Thomas James is intimate, and that intimacy leads to insight rather than self-pity.

No matter how much you badger me, I am not wading into War and Peace this summer. But novellas! Oh, novellas are like mint juleps on an August afternoon.

When Doug Burr’s Thing About Trouble came on two winters ago, I had that immediate connection certain songs engender.

Hardwick defies genre in this lyric memoir/novel, championing the sentence above all else. NYRB Classics did us all a favor when they resurrected Sleepless Nights from the out-of-print graveyard in 2001.