Full text finally available on the Believer website: I wrote about my former professor, Richard Poirer, for The Believer.
Writing by Lisa Levy
Tagged Literary Criticism
More Big Literary Biographies of Women, Please
I used Ruth Franklin’s excellent biography of Shirley Jackson as an occasion to write about literary biography at Literary Hub.
The Rise of the Literary Espionage Novel
I wrote about the new breed of highbrow spy novels at Pacific Standard.
Dirty Mind: An Interview with Wayne Koestenbaum
I sat down for a long chat with the brilliant Wayne Koestenbaum for the LARB.
The Generic Life
I wrote an essay for Full-Stop about Eileen Simpson’s wonderful memoir, Poets in Their Youth, and the poets she chronicles wherein (John Berryman, Robert Lowell, Delmore Schwartz, et al).
