I love mystery novels... I love seeing the dramas played out in academic departments, particularly English departments. I started reading these when I was going up for tenure.

Next quotes

• Natasha Trethewey:

  I've been telling my students, 'Imitate, imitate.' And they say, 'Well, what if I plagiarize, or wh

• Natasha Trethewey:

  I was always very aware of the nature of the place where I was growing up in Gulfport, Mississippi,

• Natasha Trethewey:

  It's so necessary to try and record the cultural memory of people. To set it down for generations t

• Natasha Trethewey:

  Even as I think of myself as a 'rememberer,' I also know my memory is probably doing all this work

• Natasha Trethewey:

  My obsessions stay the same - historical memory and historical erasure. I am particularly intereste

• Natasha Trethewey:

  I am interested in 18th century natural philosophy, science, particularly botany, the study of hybr

• Natasha Trethewey:

  A poem I write is not just about me; it is about national identity, not just regional but national,

• Natasha Trethewey:

  People always want to be on the right side of history; it is a lot easier to say, 'What an atrocity

• Natasha Trethewey:

  My father is a poet, my stepmother is a poet, and so I always had encouragement as a child to write

• Natasha Trethewey:

  'Memory.' 'Race.' 'Murder.' That's what they say about me. I am an elegiac poet. I have some histor