The Ends of Innocence: On Lucy Ives's “An Image of My Name Enters America”
These were the years of Y2K rapture-tripping, before 9/11 shattered the world—the forecasted apocalypse that never came to pass, as opposed to the actual one we didn’t see coming.
Containment and Collapse: On Lucy Ives’ “Life Is Everywhere”
If the story is to be understood as an autobiographical account of Erin’s childhood, then it is one heavily reworked, fever dream-style.