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“Look Who Made It:” A Playlist for Karen Russell’s Vampires in the Lemon Grove

  To me, a new Karen Russell book is literary Christmas. Her new collection tells the stories of characters doing their best to conquer insurmountable odds: addiction, enslavement, the aftereffects of war. The stories explore the strengths and frailties of people; below, I’ve tried to match each one with a song that does it justice….

the cover of Petrarchan by Kristina Marie Darling

Petrarchan

This post contributed by Anne Champion. PetrarchanKristina Marie DarlingBlazeVOX Books, 201369 pages$16.00 Kristina Marie Darling’s accolades already include eleven books of poetry, and her newest collection, Petrarchan, keeps up with this furious creative momentum. In Darling’s past work, she has carved out a form of poetry all her own, built from fragments, definitions, and footnotes;…

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Rayna James Wright! And Other Sacrilegious Comparisons

So I was catching up on my Nashville the other day—and by “catching up” I mean “watching the first thirteen episodes of Season 1 back-to-back on Hulu because I’ve had the flu, OKAY?!”—when it hit me: COUNTRY MUSIC AND POETRY HAVE A LOT IN COMMON. Then the NyQuil also hit me, and I fell asleep for about…