Sara Wilson

A WLT intern, Sara Wilson is earning a master’s in literary and cultural studies at the University of Oklahoma. Her interests are postmodern and contemporary American fiction and poetry.

Sara Wilson’s Summer Reads

May 2016
Sara Wilson

Editorial assistant Sara Wilson’s summer reading picks vary in content from knotty lovers’ quarrels to narratives gathered from the aftershock of warfare. She’s added some Neruda to h...
Editor’s Pick: The Bridge of Beyond by Simone Schwarz-Bart

September 2013
Sara Wilson

The Bridge of Beyond Simone Schwarz-Bart, Barbara Bray, tr. New York Review Books Classics, 2013 Born in 1938 on the southwest coast of France, Caribbean writer Simone Schwarz-Bart spent her childhood...
New Windows into the Iranian American Experience: An Interview with Anita Amirrezvani & Persis Karim

May 15, 2013 | Sara Wilson

Left: Anita Amirrezvani Right: Persis Karim Perhaps best known to the American public for the memoir genre, Iranian American literature has expanded considerably since the lat...
Poetry with “Something at Stake”: Benjamin Myers on Past and Present

April 29, 2013 | Sara Wilson

Ben Myers and his newest book Lapse Americana April means tax stresses and spring, whether for you spring involves heavy snowfall or seasonal allergies. But in the U.S. April is also nationa...
Fiction by Way of Cupcake-throwing: Amelia Gray on the Literary Death Match

March 5, 2013 | Sara Wilson

Illustration by Jen Rickard On March 13 fiction star Amelia Gray will perform in Boston at the seven-year anniversary of the raucous phenomenon known as the Literary Death Match, a monthly competitio...
Love Gone Wrong: The Universal Language of Emotional Destruction

February 12, 2013 | Sara Wilson

Photo Irina Patrascu/Flickr Valentine’s Day looms. You have someone; you don’t have someone; you are caught between someones. Wherever you find yourself on the relationship spectrum, you’ll enjoy thi...