Marisa Wright

@marisa-wright.com

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Writer and civil rights lawyer. Bylines: Chicago Review of Books, The Millions, Electric Literature, Ms. Magazine, Prism, Harvard Review, and more.

Two novels—Look What You Made Me Do by John Lanchester and Good News by Alexa Yasmin Brahme—sitting on the arm of a beige sofa with a pink throw pillow and wine-colored blanket on the ride side of the image and the dark hard wood flooring on the left.
Headline: U-M is Time magazine's No. 1-ranked public university in America Sub-heading: Ohio State ranked 33rd overall
A screenshot of a comment left onto my last newsletter post: “Fasinating perspective on the lawyer-writer connection! The Kierkegaard dichotomy really reframes this whole thing, like the aesthetic and ethical don't have to be opposing at all. I've always wonderd why so many acclaimed novelists came from law and this totally clicks now. That narrative as theory of change idea is lowkey profound.”
“Consequently, in addition to Arlington Park, we need to expand our search and critically evaluate opportunities throughout the wider Chicagoland region, including Northwest Indiana. This is not about leverage. We spent years trying to build a new home in Cook County. We invested significant time and resources evaluating multiple sites and rationally decided on Arlington Heights. Our fans deserve a world-class stadium. Our players and coaches deserve a venue that matches the championship standard they strive for every day. With that in mind, our organization must keep every credible pathway open to deliver that future.”
A hand holding the book “Save the Cat! Writes a Novel” in front of a beige couch with a light pink accent rug and pillows and frames handling on a white wall
A stack of books on a white sheet: The Secret History; Sisters in Yellow; You Are Here; Icebreakers; Problematic Summer Romance; Daydream; Wildfire; Between Friends & Lovers; The Seven Year Slip; These Summer Storms; Done and Dusted; The Best American Food and Travel Writing 2025; The Best American Short Stories 2025; The Best American Essays 2025; You, Again; Daddy Issues; Love, Theoretically; The Art Thief; Seascraper; The Old Fire; and London Falling.
A screenshot of a post that says “College football isn't for being a fan of a team, it's for hating several teams for inscrutable reasons”
A stack of books on a white sheet: Slanting Towards the Sea, Family Lexicon, The Secret of Secrets, The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny, The Love Hypothesis, Dead and Alive, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, Fat Swim, Down Time, Love on the Brain, American Fantasy, Just for the Summer, Life’s Too Short, Part of Your World, Loathe to Love You, Say You’ll Remember Me, Not in Love, Holiday Ever After, and All’s Fair in Love and Pickleball.
Title card of “Wicked: For Good” in white curvy lettering over rows of flowers in various shades of pink and purple
A hand holding an advanced readers copy of Patrick Radden Keefe’s new book “London Falling,” which has a black and white image of the Thames River and white text on the cover, in front of a background of an apartment with dark wood flooring, a light wood tv stand holding books and candles, and a light pink rug
A stack of books on a white background: The King of a Rainy Country; Seduction Theory; The Wedding People; Exit Lane; Ordinary People; Palaver; White Noise; Deep End; Beg, Borrow, or Steal; No Name on the Street; No Straight Road Takes You There; The Story of a Single Woman; The Rest of Our Lives; One Boat; and The Land in Winter.
Storefront of Literari Boosktore in Ann Arbor framed by fall leaves
A stack of books in a white sheet: A Burning, A Guardian and a Thief, One Golden Summer, Every Summer After, A Marriage at Sea, Project Hail Mary, Hardly Strangers, Grape Juice, Set Piece, The Anthropologists, Before the Coffee Gets Cold, Meet Me at the Lake, This Summer Will Be Different, First-Time Caller, Blue Sisters, Sleep, At Last, Family Happiness, and A Novel Bookstore.
A stack of books on a white sheet: Cleopatra and Frankenstein, The God of the Woods, Once More With Feeling, How to End a Love Story, Meant to be Mine, Minor Black Figures, Goodnight Tokyo, Heat 2, When in Rome, A Truce That is Not Peace, The Parisian, Show Don’t Tell, American Pastoral, The Maniac, The Husbands, Bad Behavior, Who is Government?, Totally and Completely Fine, Happy All the Time, and The Wilderness.
A stack of books on a white sheet: The Volcano Lover, The Satisfaction Cafe, The Other Girl, Bird Milk & Mosquito Bones, Without Consent, The Safekeep, A Guardian and a Thief, Pond, Ex-Wife, Comedic Timing, Writing Creativity and Soul, Forgotten on Sunday, We Do Not Part, Sea Wife, Sorrow and Bliss, and Funny You Should Ask.
Movie poster for F1 the movie with Brad Pitt in the center and text in black
A stack of books on a white sheet: MCU, Birnam Wood, Unworld, Big Fan, The House of Beauty, Awake, Ordinary Love, Heart the Lover, The Use of Photography, Roman Stories, Square Waves, The High Dive, Table for One, Careless People, and Gabriële.
Movie poster for The Phoenician Scheme: Benicio Del Toro sitting in a marble bathtub with the movie title in red and purple text
A stack of books on a white sheet: Notes to John, Buckeye, Playground, Olive, Everything Is Tuberculosis, The Float Test, Memorial Days, One Big Beautiful Life, Margot’s Got Money Troubles, The White Book, Headshots, Convenience Store Woman, and The Passengers on the Hankyu Line.
A stack of books on a white sheet: My Friends, I Want to Burn This Place Down, Mother Mary Comes to Me, The Editor, Enter Ghost, Lie With Me, The Garden of Eden, Opacities, Happiness & Love, A Swim in a Pond in the Rain, The Payback, The Nimbus, The Art of Vanishing, Searches, There’s Always This Year, Eve’s Hollywood, and Zeal
A copy of two novels—The Nimbus by Robert P. Baird and The Art of Vanishing by Morgan Pager—sitting on a white sheet
A stack of books on a white sheet: Wolf Hall, Gliff, Flashlight, Rejection, What We Talk About When We Talk About Love, The Emperor of Gladness, Flirting Lessons, Theory & Practice, Stop Me If You’ve Heard This One, Angela’s Ashes, and Misophonia
A stack of books on a white sheet: The Dream Hotel, Sucker Punch, Maggie; Or, A Man and A Woman Walk Into A Bar, The Payback, There’s No Turning Back, Misophonia, Intimacies, The Waves, and The Dry Season
A collage of four pictures of advocates with navy text saying the COVRA passed the senate state affairs committee 3-2
A stack of books laying on a white sheet: Interpreter of Maladies, The Inland Sea, Elegy, Southwest, Shanghailanders, My Documents, Playworld, James, Swamplandia!, Lawless, Demand the Impossible, Woodworking, Engines of Liberty, Before the Movement, Stag Dance, Last Call, The Man Nobody Killed, The Night Trembles, and Audition.
A white hand holding a copy of “Engines of Liberty” by David Cole, which has an aquamarine cover and black text
Copies of The Best American Essays, Short Stories, and Food and Travel Writing 2024 laying on a white sheet
A statement from Lily Yohannes saying she’s committing to play for the USWNT and featuring her in a US jersey on the right panel
Exterior of the Angelike pop up at Union Market DC: white brick building with a black logo and door
Final score: Michigan 30, Ohio State 24