Friday, April 27, 2018

Elizabeth Strout's Anything is Possible Wins Story Prize, But Does One Read The Separate Pieces as Stories or Chapters?

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Elizabeth Strout’s Anything is Possible recently won the Story Prize, an annual book award “honoring the author of an outstanding collec...
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Wednesday, April 4, 2018

"Cat Person" and "Beauty and the Beast"

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One of my readers recently wrote: “I’m looking forward to reading your review of ’Cat Person.’ Will you write it?” Well, now that it h...
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Friday, March 23, 2018

Charles Holdefer's Reading of George Saunders' Pastoralia

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I recently read a book-length discussion of George Saunders’ Pastoralia by Charles Holdefer, the author of four novels and a collection...
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Friday, January 26, 2018

Thank you, Ursula le Guin

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In her speech on receiving the National Book Foundation Medal in 2014, Ursula Le Guin, who died this past week at the age of 88, scolded p...
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Friday, December 8, 2017

William H. Gass: the Significance of Form and The Beauty of Language

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I was sorry to hear of the death of William H. Gass this week. He has been America's most important philosophical novelist, not i...
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Thursday, September 21, 2017

Annie Proulx Will be Awarded the Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters

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The National Book Foundation has just announced that it will award  Annie Proulx the Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American L...
Tuesday, September 19, 2017

Best British Stories: 2017--Part 4--Are These Pieces Stories?

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Are These Pieces Stories? . One might very well respond to the question that heads this commentary, “Who cares?” “What difference does ...
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