Emily Wells is the author of a memoir, A Matter of Appearance (Seven Stories Press, 2023). She teaches writing at UC Irvine.
Emily Wells
Articles
Journey to the End of Autofiction
Emily Wells and Aaron Bornstein talk with John Tottenham about his debut novel, “Service.”
Brimming with Pathos
Emily Wells interviews William J. Simmons about “Love and Degradation: Excessive Desires in Queer-Feminist Art.”
Out of the Mouth of Bots: Child Genius and Generative Machines
In an excerpt from LARB Quarterly no. 41, “Truth,” Emily Wells and Aaron Bornstein scrutinize a pair of child geniuses.
Muscular Sanity: The Language of Pain in Literature
Emily Wells on the language of pain in literature.
The Strange, Irreverent Worlds of “Down Below” and “The Complete Stories of Leonora Carrington”
Emily Wells looks at two new rereleases from Leonora Carrington.
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