The Literary Essay in 2017 Interview by Paul Haney, Nonfiction Editor, Redivider Ned Stuckey-French teaches at Florida State University and is book review editor of Fourth Genre. He is the author of The American Essay in the American Century (University of Missouri Press, 2011), co-editor (with Carl Klaus) of Essayists on the Essay: From Montaigne to…
Art Spotlight: Bonnie Shanas
A Dance of Two Hearts See Bonnie Shanas’s work in WTP Vol. V #5 wire mesh, spray paint 48.5″ x 39.5″ I create figurative sculptures from wire mesh (a galvanized steel used in construction). While most forms of sculpture are additive or reductive, I enjoy the unique challenge of manipulating a form out of a single…
Literary Spotlight: Lynne Viti
From WTP Vol. V #5 Going Too Fast By Lynne Viti My sister and I are walking down a long pink hall in the nursing home at Charlestown. A Catholic seminary in its former life, it’s now a huge complex of buildings on the south edge of Baltimore, apartments for affluent retirees, and an assisted…
Jean Eng: Bonsais and Bathtubs
“By miniaturizing the landscape…it is possible to protect, nurture and if necessary, regenerate that which is endangered.” by Emily Jaeger, Features Editor Jean Eng was born in Sudbury, Ontario and graduated with high honors from Sheridan College in Oakville, Ontario. Since then, she has worked as a freelance illustrator before becoming a painter. Her work…
A Visit With Tim Prentice
Drawing on the Air By Richard Malinsky, Arts Editor Recently I had the pleasure of spending an afternoon with Tim Prentice at his compound high atop a mountain in the hills of northwest Connecticut—a veritable wind-sculpture farm with acres of grassy land; a mesmerizing place of mobiles and free-standing kinetic sculptures oscillating in hilltop breezes,…
Underpainting and Taking Risks
Two-Part Series: RF Pigment Sticks and Gauging Success By Pamela Caughey See Pamela Caughey’s work in WTP Vol. IV #5 RF Pigment Sticks and taking RISKS, Cold Wax/Oil Painting Painting in a series allows you to take a lot more RISK because you have more going on and nothing is so ‘precious.’ Watch as I…
Eye on the Indies
A Look at Indie Authors and Their Publishers By Lanie Tankard, Indie Book Reviews Editor Book: The Tower of the Antilles Brooklyn, New York: Akashic Books, July 4, 2017 (160 pp, $19.95 hardcover), ISBN 9781617755392, also available as e-book. Cover art and design are by Jeremy John Parker, with cover image by Sebastien Wiertz. Author: Achy Obejas Native Cuban Achy…
Artists Have No Views
Does Authorial Intent Exist? By Clarke W. Owens Oscar Wilde, when he was being cross-examined in a civil court case, was asked whether a well-written book with perverted moral views is a good book, and his response was that “No work of art ever puts forward views. Views belong to people who are not artists.”…
Art Spotlight: Brut Carniollus
Maestro See Brut Carniollus’s work in WTP Vol. V #5 digital collage digital UV print up to 39″ x 39″ Being essentially a collector of images, I find photography to be the perfect media, as it gives me a tool to harvest images almost unconsciously. Collected pictures are then, and not so seldom years after…
Literary Spotlight: Wally Swist
From Vol. V #5 Cinema By Wally Swist The first film I remember seeing was The Rat Race, with Tony Curtis and Debbie Reynolds, a blur of a memory, sitting next to my mother, who I believe was her way of preparing me, at the age of eight, for the society I would eventually enter,…
WTP Roundup: From the Editor
June 2017 By Sandra Tyler, Editor-in-Chief Happy June! Highlights of WTP delights you may have missed: Interview with Brianna Baurichter about her sweeping and deeply evocative charcoal drawings; video of Holly Wong’s diaphanous and thoughtful installations works (both who appear in our Vol. V#4 issue); contributing editor Richard Gilbert’s insightful post on how making art can also apply…
Site Review: Pen + Brush
Achieving Gender Parity Through the Arts by Emily Jaeger, Features Editor Founded in 1894 by Janet and Mary Lewis, Pen + Brush has been at the forefront of gender parity in the arts for over 120 years. In its current incarnation as a gallery in the Flatiron District of New York City, Pen + Brush…