Sprigs of Wire
Ange Mlinko: On Jo Ann Beard, 21 March 2024
Collected Works
by Jo Ann Beard.
Serpent’s Tail, 439 pp., £17.99, August 2023,978 1 80081 788 3 Show More
by Jo Ann Beard.
Serpent’s Tail, 439 pp., £17.99, August 2023,
“... Beard says that she often returns to Dillard’s essay ‘The Death of a Moth’, a homage to Virginia Woolf. For those of us left cold by the pervasiveness of autofiction – and its ubiquitous references to prime real estate, cuisine and kink – Dillard persists as a distant supernova in a sub-zero vacuum: once upon a time, essayists sought the ... ”