New Georgia Encyclopedia | Lauren Gunderson (b. 1982)
One of the most produced playwrights in the United States, Lauren Gunderson's oeuvre includes plays, musicals, screenplays, and picture books. Many of her works focus on the lives of real and imagined heroines, particularly women in the sciences, and explore themes of innovation, morality, and discovery.
Eater Atlanta | Displaced, Family-Run Grocery Cafe Back in Business Downtown
“People are always pleasantly surprised to find a quality food and coffee option here at Underground,” Grant adds. “When people stumble in, look around, and say, ‘Wait, what is this?’ — that’s the most exciting moment of the day, to watch people walk in, to see that befuddlement turn into delight.”
The Bind | Jenny Sadre-Orafai's Malak
That we can name the truth as such even in its unknowability, that we can comprehend languages we don’t speak, that there are languages that exist outside of utterance—these notions exist comfortably and beautifully beside one another in Malak, and they often glow, miraculous.
The Bind | Melissa Broder's Last Sext
Having given Last Sext two readings, I can attest that it’s a collection best experienced via full immersion—my reading experience was all the more rich when I finally surrendered and let myself sink into the waters of Broder’s dizzying, relentless declaratives and cosmic uncertainties.
Grist (Online) | The Skin that Heats and Sparks: Anya Krugovoy Silver’s From Nothing
Whether taking root in story, art, history, memory, or what lies beneath the skin, From Nothing is a deft exploration of the body and lived experience–in its flourishing and its fragility.
Brevity: The Blog | The Hybrid Writer's Life (Post-MFA)
As I soon came to the conclusion that the academic career path was not the career path for me, I became more and more fascinated with these kinds of writers: the ones who had other interests and obligations outside the typical gamut of writing/literature/ composition/teaching/adjuncting. The lawyers and hairdressers and rabbit enthusiasts who found room in their lives to make art, too.
Grist (Online) | Hard Lines: Rough South Poetry
Hard Lines is best read slowly, a few strong poems at a time. It celebrates the enduring tradition of the narrative in Southern poetics, and the collection is at its most thought-provoking when poems embody a present-South that interrogates its past-South shadow.
Bitter Southerner (Folklore Project) | Mourning Food
I had never seen myself as the other daughter, just the stepdaughter that came around sometimes, content to witness the two of them from the periphery.
Later, my roommate and I split the cake, sitting cross-legged on the floor of our dorm. The icing was fudgy, thick, perfect, and it clung to our teeth.