An Untamed State

Round-Up: AN UNTAMED STATE Film Adaptation, Robots, and AWP16

Round-Up: AN UNTAMED STATE Film Adaptation, Robots, and AWP16

ByErin Jones

From a film adaptation of Roxane Gay’s An Untamed State to robots writing fiction, here’s a look at this week’s literary news: Author, essayist, and editor Roxane Gay can now add another title to her list of credentials: screenwriter. It was announced last week that Gay’s novel An Untamed State will be made into a…

“It’s All About the Panic”: An Interview with Mary Biddinger
|

“It’s All About the Panic”: An Interview with Mary Biddinger

ByMatthew Thorburn

Mary Biddinger’s poems are poignant, playful, a little mysterious, in love with language, and full of surprising connections: between music and meaning, between memory and imagination, between nostalgia and a yearning for what’s next. I’ve read and admired her poems since we were in the same undergraduate workshops at the University of Michigan twenty years…