Alysia Li Ying Sawchyn teaches in the Creative Writing Program at Bucknell University. Formerly the editor in chief of The Rumpus, she has received fellowships from The Kenyon Review and the Sewanee Writers’ Conference. Their first essay collection, A Fish Growing Lungs, was a finalist for The Believer Book Awards.
Sawchyn's new essay collection is I Have This Thing for Flowers.
At Lit Hub the author tagged seven "favorite titles, both fiction and non-fiction, that complicate and distract from and look askance at the traditional story of two people falling in love and getting married." One title on the list:
Tomorrow, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, Gabrielle ZevinRead about another entry on the list.
I read this book at a friend’s insistence: I had just returned from a research trip to the Ware Collection and she was in the middle of Tomorrow, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow,and surely, my friend insisted, the coincidence of the was too perfect to ignore. She was right.
At the opening of the novel, former childhood friends Sadie and Sam see each other for the first time in many years at a train station near Harvard, where they are both attending school. This is another book in which a protagonist’s marriage happens off the page: It is through Sam that Sadie meets Marx, the man who will be both their business partner and eventually, Sadie’s husband. Though there are jealousies and complications surrounding Sadie’s marriage, these are mostly considered in relation to Sadie’s relationship with Sam.
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow is among Keith Stuart's five top books about video games and Garnett Cohen's seven novels about characters shaped by their cravings.
--Marshal Zeringue
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