If Rectify entertains the possibility that small towns are like prisons, it makes sure we understand that simile is not equivalence. Continue reading Essay: Where I’m Writing From: Comfort, Commodification, and the Small Town as Hollywood Trope (Part II, 2014)
n Fargo, the series’ bloodshed is, likewise, the product of wish-fulfillment-gone-wrong—those who get what they want, the shows wants us to understand, inevitably get what they deserve. Continue reading Essay: Where I’m Writing From: Comfort, Commodification, and the Small Town as Hollywood Trope (Part 1, 2014)
How much was the product of the poets’ heliotropic tendencies and how much the offspring of the kudzu-like culture of “lyric reading”? Continue reading Essay: Form Dysfunction: On Caroline Levine, Terrance Hayes, and Frederick Seidel (2019)
