The body in writing is a vessel to feeling—to empathy. Reading Lidia Yuknavitch, Maggie Nelson, Ta-Nehisi Coates, among others, is to feel.
Over at the Ploughshares blog, E.V. De Cleyre considers the presence of the body in writing, focusing on works by Lidia Yuknavitch, Maggie Nelson, and Ta-Nehisi Coates.