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A Particularly Intimate Mourning: On Susie Boyt’s “Loved and Missed”
Eric Gudas reviews Susie Boyt’s “Loved and Missed.”...
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Eric Gudas
Eric Gudas is the author of Best Western and Other Poems (Silverfish Review Press, 2010). His essays and reviews have appeared in Raritan, All About Jazz, Poetry Flash, Senses of Cinema, Reading in Translation, and elsewhere. He contributed the afterword to Natalia Ginzburg’s Family and Borghesia (New York Review Books Classics, 2021). For more information, visit https://linktr.ee/ericgudas.
Articles
Social Distancing in the Age of Gigging
It feels like just yesterday that we began to hear the ominous term, “social distancing,” with its quasi-public health connotation — stay away from groups of people to avoid Coronavirus infection — but which also describes the condition of my life as a ...
Social Distancing in the Age of Gigging
It feels like just yesterday that we began to hear the ominous term, “social distancing,” with its quasi-public health connotation — stay away from groups of people to avoid Coronavirus infection — but which also describes the condition of my life as a ...
Richard Kalvar: “Looking for Things in the Street”
Eric Gudas narrates Richard Kalvar’s Photofile series collection....
A Long-Haired Mule and a Porkepine
Eric Gudas dishes on Daryl Sanders’s “That Thin, Wild Mercury Sound.”...
That Evil Yellow Light: On Jean Stafford’s “The Mountain Lion”
Eric Gudas makes the case for “The Mountain Lion,” a classic novel of childhood by Jean Stafford....
The Acceptance of Certain Mysteries: Peter Taylor’s “Complete Stories”
Eric Gudas finds Peter Taylor’s two-volume “Complete Stories” transformative....
Nights of the Mu-Tron III: On Peter Conners’s “Cornell ’77” and the Mystique of the Grateful Dead
Eric Gudas on “Cornell ’77” by Peter Conners and the Grateful Dead’s live acts and recorded legacy....
“I Know That Story!”: On Natalia Ginzburg’s “Family Lexicon”
Eric Gudas pores over “Family Lexicon” by Natalia Ginzburg....
Auguries of Experience: The Poetry of Naomi Replansky
Eric Gudas surveys the life and work of poet Naomi Replansky....
Scrappiness
Poets who don’t want their unpublished poems to see the light of day should — as Auden did -- take to burning them....
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