Matthew Gavin Frank
Matthew Frank's next book, Preparing the Ghost: An Essay Concerning the Giant Squid and Its First Photographer, is forthcoming from W.W. Norton: Liveright in 2014. His other titles include The Morrow Plots (Black Lawrence, 2013), Warranty in Zulu (Barrow Street, 2010) and Sagittarius Agitprop (Black Lawrence, 2009). He lives in Marquette, Michigan.
Reading List
The Sad Autoerotica of Crawfish Etouffee
When the old woman with no upper lip tells you, in the Faubourg Marigny, that to pluck a crawfish from the bayou is akin to the tying of a silk scarf around one’s neck, that, as these little freshwater crustaceans …