Merve Emre
Merve Emre is the Shapiro-Silverberg Professor of Creative Writing and Criticism at Wesleyan University and a contributing writer at the New Yorker.
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Merve Emre is the Shapiro-Silverberg Professor of Creative Writing and Criticism at Wesleyan University and a contributing writer at the New Yorker.
Djuna Barnes’s short stories return again and again to characters suffering from love, fear, and alienation.
Djuna Barnes
Edited and with a foreword by Merve Emre
“Like a dark lesbian genius rolling in a giant heap of damp, dead leaves.” —Eileen Myles
“This supple collection from Barnes shaves the themes of lost innocence, unrequited love, and death of her modernist masterwork, Nightwood, into febrile confessions . . . These memorable sketches unfurl a barbed wisdom of the grave.” —Publishers Weekly
The best of Djuna Barnes’s dark, droll, incisive short fiction, spanning her all-too-brief career, edited and introduced by Merve Emre.