| Susan Orlean is not a fictional character. True, Meryl Streep won a Golden Globe for playing someone by that name in the 2002 film Adaptation, one of the loopier high dives in the annals of screenwriting, and seven years later, readers still tell the Orchid Thief author how much she resembles Streep. “Talk about power of suggestion,” Orlean laughs, “There is not one feature we have in common!” (read on...) |
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Cornelius Eady and Sarah Micklem have a busy address book. There’s their tiny apartment in New York’s West Village; South Bend, Indiana, where Eady commutes to run Notre Dame’s creative writing program; and twin cottages on a hilltop in Greene County. Side by side, compatible but self-contained, the cottages offer an apt metaphor for the marriage of two working writers.
Eady’s seven books of poetry include Lamont Prize winner Victims of the Latest Dance Craze, Brutal Imagination, and Pulitzer finalist The Gathering of My Name; he’s also an Obie Award-winning playwright. His 2008 book Hardheaded Weather opens with epigraphs from Ezra Pound (“Make it new.”) and James Brown (“Make it funky.”) Eady does both, and he makes it his own.
Micklem is a fantasy novelist whose earthy, remarkable debut Firethorn earned glowing reviews and a Locus Award nomination. Wildfire, the second volume of her trilogy about a headstrong woman amid warring clans, followed in 2009. (read on...) |
