After Sappho

Jan 24, 2023 | musalmantimes.com | After Sappho |Selby Wynn Schwartz

Colette, Woolf and many of their contemporaries refused to accept the boundaries between fiction and nonfiction, between imagination and life. “After Sappho”considers the intimate moments beyond historical record, shifting our gaze and questioning the discipline of history itself. Schwartz builds a novel around women’s struggles for self-determination, excising the men who were in their way. For the most part, these men simply do not appear in the book at all.

Jan 24, 2023 | nytimes.com | Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore |Selby Wynn Schwartz |After Sappho

AFTER SAPPHO, by Selby Wynn Schwartz“A poet is someone who swims inexplicably away from the shore, only to arrive at an island of her own invention,” Selby Wynn Schwartz writes in “After Sappho,” her first novel.