Lust for Life - ODU LitFest: Still Sexy at 40

I want to live forever in wonder. The difference between me as a child and me as an adult is this and only this: when I was a child I longed to travel into, to live in wonder. Now I know, as much as I can know anything, that to travel into wonder is to be wonder. So it matters little whether I travel by plane, by rowboat, or by book. Or by dream. ~ Kathy Acker

In books we travel by dream into the bodies and souls of characters who live forever in the eternal present. Words bring forth beings whose love, pain, lust, and awe can sate our yearning. Join us this week as we dream, by means of the poems, essays, stories, plays, and photographs of seventeen world-renowned writers and artists.

~ John McManus & Kathy Fowler, 2017 Festival Directors

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Remica Bingham-Risher, 40th Annual ODU Literary Festival, Remica Bingham-Risher

Mahogany L. Browne, 40th Annual ODU Literary Festival, Mahogany L. Browne

Roz Chast, 40th Annual ODU Literary Festival, Roz Chast

Carrie Fountain, 40th Annual ODU Literary Festival, Carrie Fountain

Lamar Giles, 40th Annual ODU Literary Festival, Lamar Giles

Kaitlyn Greenidge, 40th Annual ODU Literary Festival, Kaitlyn Greenidge

Garth Greenwell, 40th Annual ODU Literary Festival, Garth Greenwell

Laurie Ann Guerrero, 40th Annual ODU Literary Festival, Laurie Ann Guerrero

Amaud Jamaul Johnson, 40th Annual ODU Literary Festival, Amaud Jamaul Johnson

Olivia Laing, 40th Annual Literary Festival, Olivia Laing

Don Lee, 40th Annual ODU Literary Festival, Don Lee

Drew Lopenzina, 40th Annual ODU Literary Festival, Drew Lopenzina

Ellen McLaughlin, 40th Annual ODU Literary Festival, Ellen McLaughlin

Janet Peery, 40th Annual ODU Literary Festival, Janet Peery

Alexandra Petri, 40th Annual ODU Literary Festival, Alexandra Petri

Tim Seibles, 40th Annual ODU Literary Festival, Tim Seibles

Sarah Stacke, 40th Annual ODU Literary Festival, Sarah Stacke

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