Wright, Devin

As an author Devin Wright is not "typically" urban. He does not write narratives to satisfy the gaze of those on the outside, with characters making an appeal in their exodus of the sensationalized violence and desperation of the inner city - these characters are always different, better than what their environment has to offer, special, cut from a different cloth, more human even, to tap into the sensibilities of the audience; they are the "good ones" in the pit of hell, of all of Sodom and Gomorra, they are Lot and his kin. Devin refuses to retell this story, as so many novels, movies, and s...