In this second installment of three mini-episodes, Sullivan reads his poem “Venus’s Flytrap,” which opens our Summer 2024 issue. Sifting through facts, history, and personal anecdotes, Sullivan examines the complex and often dismal biology of this carnivorous plant.
John Jeremiah Sullivan is the author of Blood Horses: Notes of a Sportswriter’s Son and Pulphead: Essays. The Prime Minister of Paradise, his book about an eighteenth-century Utopian philosopher who lived among the indigenous Cherokee in present-day Tennessee, is forthcoming from Random House. His short-form work has been published widely in the New York Times, the Paris Review, and Harper’s. He resides in Wilmington, North Carolina.
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