by Edward Mullany | May 21, 2012
It seems fitting to conclude this season’s Why Write? series as deftly as Daryl Scroggins began it. And who is more deft than Edward Mullany? Why Write? An old woman tells the story of how, in her youth, she fell in love with a man who was not the man she...
by Suzanne Wise | May 4, 2012
Alice Fulton has said of Suzanne Wise’s work that “it bristles with the struggle to define and comprehend the absurd component of evil and despair.” Here in her “Why Write?” piece she turns toward the “monastic devotion” that...
by Vanessa Blakeslee | Apr 22, 2012
Fiction writer Vanessa Blakeslee’s “Hospice of the Au Pair,” from our Fall 2010 issue, introduces a powerful new voice in fiction. Here is the rare early writer who knows how to build compelling narrative, whose stories hit the ground running —...
by Anselm Berrigan | Mar 31, 2012
Anselm Berrigan digs irrelevance. His most recent book, Notes from Irrelevance (Wave Books, 2011), excerpted at length in our spring 2011 issue, is a sixty-five page poem that grinds its way into that space where we become irrelevant even to ourselves, our desires...
by Jacob Paul | Mar 5, 2012
Novelist Jacob Paul’s narrative gusto makes it easy to forget that he is essentially a meditative writer. Even as we’re sped along by the meaty plot, exuberant comedy, and crackling dialogue, Paul’s fluidly reflexive prose cycles us deeper and deeper...
by Tony Magistrale | Feb 20, 2012
A poet of place and love, Tony Magistrale’s poems have large arms in which to envelope his readers. The force of this love is sometimes poignant sometimes painful, but always just right. A poet with backbone and a real heart, now that’s nice. Why...
