Always Home, Always Homesick

Always Home, Always Homesick

It’s a cliché in literary studies that even the best writers rarely succeed when they stray outside their given form. The story goes that great poets make for average novelists, great novelists for average playwrights, and that in general none but a blessed few get a shot at more than one thing. There’s good reason to rethink this critical dictum when a number of contemporary