Erica Wright

1 week ago | chapter16.org | Erica Wright |Sean Kinch |Lee Conell |Ed Tarkington

In her new story collection Hellions, Julia Elliott embraces the grotesque, playing with a rich literary tradition and molding it into something wholly her own. These tales teem with supernatural creatures — demons, hags, changelings, and swamp apes — but it’s the humans who are most compelling. Hellions opens with “Bride” in which the nun Wilda flagellates and starves herself to purge her body of sin, specifically lust.

1 month ago | chapter16.org | Erica Wright |Maria Browning |Julia Nunnally Duncan |Margie Sanders

When I was a teenager, I dreamed about living in New York City and having a cat à la Holly Golightly in Breakfast at Tiffany’s. I think about that fantasy as I stand in my Tennessee backyard in the middle of the night because my beagle mix Penny has eaten something that disagreed with her sensitive digestive tract. Probably an onion she dug up, but maybe a piece of decaying bird she managed to chomp while I wasn’t paying attention on our midday walk.

2 months ago | chapter16.org | Erica Wright |Robert C Cumming |Humanities Tennessee |Emily Choate

Pulitzer Prize-winning author James Agee is best known for his novels and screenplays, but a new volume from The Works of James Agee series restores his reputation as a poet. Complete Poetry of James Agee includes the writer’s earliest publication, Permit Me Voyage, as well as the scant number of poems that were published in magazines and journals during Agee’s lifetime.

Dec 9, 2024 | chapter16.org | Erica Wright |Maria Browning

In her new poetry collection Winter Sharp with Apples, Annette Sisson centers the ordinary joys and sorrows of life. It’s a monumental task to record dailiness, those stretches of time that might be unremarkable if not for somebody gesturing toward them, making us look. And Sisson does so with a sharp eye, never missing a detail. In “Flight Season,” the speaker embodies an in-between space, caring for a grandchild in one section and an elderly parent in another.

Aug 5, 2024 | electricliterature.com | Sarah Shun-lien Bynum |Jo Lou |Erica Wright

Reading Lists Each perspective adds a new dimension, complicating what we think we know Novels with multiple points of view aren’t telling one story, but many. They appreciate an important life principle: anybody can be a hero given the right opportunity. Even when focused on the same event, each recollection is different, tinted by each person’s experience and knowledge. These perspectives might corroborate or contradict, add another dimension, form a more complete story, or even alter the...