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 (NYRB Classics, 2021).
Eric Gudas
Articles
Outward Signs of Inner Mysteries
Eric Gudas on the work and afterlife of the misunderstood photographer Diane Arbus.
A Particularly Intimate Mourning: On Susie Boyt’s “Loved and Missed”
Eric Gudas reviews Susie Boyt’s “Loved and Missed.”
Gilberto Perez and “The Imprint of Life” on the Cinema Screen
Eric Gudas thinks back on the impacts of his film mentor, Gilberto Perez.
Social Distancing in the Age of Gigging
A Farewell to LACMA's Bing Theatre
Eric Gudas pens a eulogy for the Leo S. Bing Theatre, set to be demolished during Michael Govan and Peter Zumthor’s LACMA renovation.
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Poets who don’t want their unpublished poems to see the light of day should — as Auden did -- take to burning them.
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