Marisa Wright

Jul 26, 2024 | electricliterature.com | Marisa Wright

If Sarah Manguso’s new novel, Liars, can be categorized in any genre, it is probably best characterized as a horror story. It tells the intimate, blistering story of a marriage that seemingly begins as a fulfilling partnership between John and Jane, who ostensibly share artistic aspirations and mutual ambitions, but quickly devolves into a relationship defined by unequal domestic workloads, misogynistic resentment, and psychological manipulation.

Jul 16, 2024 | electricliterature.com | Jo Lou |Marisa Wright

Skip to content Interviews The book follows a cast of unlikeable millenials mired in simmering resentment, passive aggressive emails, and pervasive disillusionment Electric Literature Urgently Needs Your Help For the 15,000 people who visit our site every day, reading Electric Literature costs nothing. And yet Electric Lit is not free. We need to raise $25,000 by December 31, 2024 to keep Electric Literature going into next year. If the continued existence of Electric Literature means...

Jun 13, 2024 | lgbtqnation.com | Marisa Wright

In 1987, more than two hundred lesbian bars operated in the United States. Today, there are fewer than thirty. Feminist bookstores experienced a similar fate. In the 1990s, there were 135, but only about two dozen remain. The same is true of many queer establishments, like lesbian land communes and softball leagues.

Jun 13, 2024 | themillions.com | Marisa Wright

In Glynnis MacNicol’s second memoir, I’m Mostly Here to Enjoy Myself, pleasure is political. The narrative follows the weeks MacNicol spent in Paris in late summer 2021 giving herself over to the enjoyment and excesses of sex, food, art, and friendship. In her first memoir, No One Tells You This, MacNicol grapples with turning 40 as an unmarried and childfree woman.

Jun 13, 2024 | everand.com | Marisa Wright

In Glynnis MacNicol’s second memoir, I’m Mostly Here to Enjoy Myself, pleasure is political. The narrative follows the weeks MacNicol spent in Paris in late summer 2021 giving herself over to the enjoyment and excesses of sex, food, art, and friendship. In her first memoir, No One Tells You This, MacNicol grapples with turning 40 as an unmarried and childfree woman.