Readers, like writers, are essentially amoral. Arm's length will never do. We want to get closer. Stacey D'Erasmo amoralarmclose Change image and share on social
As lightly toned by reality as the women on 'Sex and the City,' the bold, soigne characters on 'The L Word' suggest that L is also for limerence, that rapturous state of early love when the entire world is glowing and delectable. Stacey D'Erasmo boldcharactercity share on social
Shelley Jackson's 'Half Life' is the textual equivalent of an installation, a multivocal, polymorphous, dialogic, dystopian satire wrapped around a murder mystery wrapped around a bildungsroman. Stacey D'Erasmo bildungsromandialogicdystopian Change image and share on social
The ambition of 'Ten Thousand Saints,' Eleanor Henderson's debut novel about a group of unambitious lost souls, is beautiful. In nearly 400 pages, Henderson does not hold back once: she writes the hell out of every moment, every scene, every perspective, every fleeting impression, every impulse and desire and bit of emotional detritus. Stacey D'Erasmo ambitionbackbeautiful share on social
A performer needs and craves a live audience. Stacey D'Erasmo audiencecravelive Change image and share on social
The much-lauded visual artist Roni Horn got her Master's in Sculpture from Yale in the Seventies, but in the course of her career she has moved, among other media, from watercolors to photographs to floor-sized installations and mats of poured gold. Stacey D'Erasmo artistcareerfloor share on social
I'm embarrassed to reveal that I never went to CBGB's in the '80s. I was never cool enough to be a punk, and I wouldn't have had the stamina, or the discipline, for straight-edge. Stacey D'Erasmo 80scbgbcool Change image and share on social
For the Supreme Court, the right for everyone to say 'I do' is where the story ends, but for artists, it's where the story just starts to get interesting. Stacey D'Erasmo artistcourtend Change image and share on social
The railroads needed standardized time; as a result, the technology of train travel shaped the way everyone gets up, eats, goes to sleep, calculates age, and, perhaps of no small importance, imagine the world as a whole, ticking reliably, with reliable deviations, according to the beat of one central clock in a physical location. Stacey D'Erasmo agecalculatecentral share on social