Dayswork

"Dayswork is charmingly unclassifiable. A collaboration between a husband and wife – one a novelist, the other a poet – it is part portrait of a literary marriage weathering the COVID-19 pandemic, part fictionalized memoir, part poetry and part biographical and critical dive into the often unhappy and not-altogether-successful life of Herman Melville. It all adds up to a clever and utterly enjoyable exploration of what it means to say that a life “works” – or doesn’t."