Inspired by Lanford Wilson’s play Talley’s Folly, Jeremy Radin’s Dear Sal is a series of epistolary meditations on loneliness, longing, the Jewish diaspora, bewilderment, divinity, and love. Radin’s second collection lays bare a life lived in romantic exile, using the play’s events―one year after a brief but passionate affair, a man returns to a deserted boathouse on his beloved’s family property in order to offer himself to her―as the foundation for a mystifying interior stage, populated by a cast of eccentrics, upon which a man must wrestle, each moment, with his own unremitting desire. “Dear Sal is a thick braid of joy, despair, Judaica, dragon teeth, familial history, & desire.” ―sam sax, author of Madness Jeremy Radin is a poet, actor, and teacher. His poems have appeared (or are forthcoming) in Gulf Coast, The Cortland Review, The Journal, Vinyl, Passages North, and elsewhere. He is the author of two collections of poetry, Slow Dance with Sasquatch (Write Bloody Publishing, 2012) and Dear Sal (not a cult press, 2017). As an actor, he's appeared on several television shows including It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, The United States of Tara, Criminal Minds, and Zoey 101, in movies such as The New World, Wrestlemaniac, and Funeral Day, and in many plays. He lives in Los Angeles where he once sat next to Carly Rae Jepsen in a restaurant. Follow him @germyradin