A new generation of poets, essayists, memoirists, and novelists is narrating stories of severed connections and exploitation both their own and the Earth’s.
Does a writer’s house have any bearing on their work? It certainly seems so. Why else would so many of the best-known writers with connections to St. Louis set their fiction in thinly veiled versions of their digs, or pen essays about the homes they grew up in? Clearly there’s a connection between place and prose.