On Anne Carson’s 'Wrong Norma'

It’s almost a punchline at this point: every writer is a little in love with and a little afraid of Anne Carson. Perhaps less with Carson herself (who is famously private, and allergic to the spotlight) and more with what she gets away with: living an unquestioned life of the mind on the page. This wide, catholic span of writing, on anything and everything that piques her interest, has earned her an unusually broad fandom for someone writing on subjects often deemed dusty or intellectually intimidating.