Jorja Rae Willis
Jorja Rae Willis is a writer and editor from the Bronx.
Sam Heaps’s debut novel The Living god is as haunting in subject as it is in style. The prose is delicately balanced: simultaneously tender and unsettling, each word luring you in as you watch baby through her darkest moments. Following its publication by SARKA, Sam and I met to discuss their Mormon upbringing, cult leaders, and child messiahs.
Gentile da Fabriano’s gold-leaf and tempera on panel composition, Madonna and Child, with Saints Lawrence and Julian (ca. 1423–25), currently on view at the Frick Madison, is still housed in its original frame: an appropriately dramatic arrangement of spiraled columns flows into an ogival arch crowned with golden leaves.
