Thea GoodmanJan 191 minAmerican Sonnets For My Past and Future Assassin by Terrance HayesSome titles are the signifier and some are the sign. This title is verse itself with its built- in juxtaposition of past and future; its...
Thea GoodmanJan 191 minOh, William! by Elizabeth StroutStrout again, inhabits Lucy Barton, from her former book, I Am Lucy Barton, who in turn inhabits Strout: Barton is a writer who is...
Thea GoodmanSep 21, 20211 minBeautiful World, Where Are You? By Sally RooneyRooney has a gift for making real the pleasures of sex and intimacy— a shower in the morning while a close friend you’ve just had great...
Thea GoodmanSep 21, 20211 minA Poetry Handbook by Mary OliverSlim, bossy and erudite, this is one of the only practical books about poetry that I’ve read. Oliver demonstrates the techniques of...
Thea GoodmanJan 12, 20211 minBetween the Covershttps://bookshop.org/books/between-the-covers-a-bookstore-erotica-anthology/9780692106280
Thea GoodmanJan 12, 20211 min110 Stories: New York Writes After September 11https://bookshop.org/books/110-stories-new-york-writes-after-september-11/9780814799352
Thea GoodmanSep 29, 20201 minWRITERS AND LOVERS by Lily King. What’s at stake in this novel is the simple happiness of our struggling writer protagonist. Love and work are what she seeks and there’s...
Thea GoodmanSep 29, 20201 minTHIS IS NOW THAT WAS THEN by Vijay SeshadriSeshadri’s fifth book of poems is wildly idiosyncratic, funny, varied in style. I found his preoccupations similar to Rankine’s in some...
Thea GoodmanSep 29, 20201 minDON'T LET ME BE LONELY TONIGHT by Claudia RankineThis book—image, poem, essay— is part of a trilogy including Just Us and Citizen, is less about race and more about mental anguish. What...
Thea GoodmanSep 29, 20201 minMONOGAMY by Sue MillerSue Miller’s novel is told not shown in the great tradition of Henry James, or George Eliot; the telling is psychological, fine tuned and...
Thea GoodmanSep 24, 20201 minJUST US by Claudia RankineThis book, one of a trilogy, an amalgam of poetry, essay, excerpt and found image transformed my way of seeing race in the US. I felt...
Thea GoodmanJul 23, 20201 min"Artichokes," A Walk in the Pandemic, a short story, Catapult Community 2020.https://catapult.co/community/stories/artichokes
-Jul 9, 202017 min"Petty Female Criminals," a short story. Catapult Community 2017https://catapult.co/community/stories/petty-female-criminals A Story of a Greenwich Village Landmark Petty Female Criminals Imagine the...
-Jul 9, 20201 min"Summer Novel," a poem in Coachella Review Summer 2020http://thecoachellareview.com/wordpress/archives-2/poetry/summer-novel/ Done, stand in the woods pages behind you insects screaming like...
Thea GoodmanJul 8, 20201 minA short story, Forthcoming 2021 in The Penn Reviewhttps://www.pennreview.org/
Thea GoodmanJul 8, 202022 min"The Elevator Ride," an essay, The Rumpus 2015https://therumpus.net/2015/05/the-sunday-rumpus-essay-the-elevator-ride/ The mothers were highly educated. In 1985 when this story begins...
Thea GoodmanJul 7, 202034 min"Art Lovers," an essay. The Rumpus 2014https://therumpus.net/2014/01/the-sunday-rumpus-essay-art-lovers/ A writer suffering from writer’s block commissions a custom-designed...
Thea GoodmanJul 6, 20206 min"The Avenue of the Americas to Tokyo," an essay. The Huffington Post 2013https://www.huffpost.com/entry/avenue-of-the-americas-to_b_3561562 In the drizzle on Sixth Avenue it’s murder getting a cab. Or in some...