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CRITICAL MASS (Free subscription) | 09/09/2008
Next week NBCC member Matt Weiland and his coeditor Sean Wilsey publish State by State : A Panoramic Portrait of America," a 21st century take on updating the WPA writers guide of the 1930s. Among their inspired pairings: NBCC fiction award winner Louise Erdrich on North Dakota, NBCC autobiography finalist Alison Bechdel on Vermont, NBCC autobiography finalist Joshua Clark on Louisiana, NBCC fiction...
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The Greenbelt (Free subscription) | 08/20/2008
Very odd. I put "fay myenne ng" into amazon's search engine and was given one book, though not one of hers: Labor's Text: The Worker in American Fiction by Laura, Hapke Excerpt - page 283: "... Ceremony, 1986), Louise Erdrich (Love Medicine, 1984), and Fay Myenne Ng ("A Red Sweater," 1986). These writers all chronicled their own ..." So it found an instance of her name misspelled as I had. But it also...
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Pavlov's Cat (Free subscription) | 07/09/2008
This week's four novels include The Plague of Doves by Canada's Louise Erdrich, a French-German-Canadian-Ojibwe writer with a string of prizes and a tragic history behind her. Here's a paragraph I've just this minute read; the notion invoked there of the 'inside becoming the outside' immediately made me think of Julia Kristeva's writing in Powers of Horror on what she calls abjection, signified among...
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Today's Tribune-Review (Free subscription) | 07/06/2008
In her new novel, "The Plague of Doves," Louise Erdrich explores a dark secret of North Dakota's history -- the lynching of three American Indians, one of them a 13-year-old boy, in 1897.
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The New York Review of Books (Free subscription) | 06/27/2008
By Claire Messud The Plague of Doves by Louise Erdrich Only in the years following my French Catholic grandmother's death was it revealed to me that there is no such thing as 'magical realism.' There are, instead, culturally specific experiences of the real which, when rendered in fiction, produce different results. Raised in an essentially Protestant setting, I had in youth absorbed, unawares, an...
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San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 06/06/2008
Here are a few recent books out in audio versions. The Plague of Doves (HarperAudio; 12 hours; 10 CDs) by Louise Erdrich, read by Kathleen McInerney and Peter Francis James. Unabridged. The Enchantress of Florence (Recorded Books; 13.5 hours; 12 CDs) by...
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The Independent (Free subscription) | 06/06/2008
Of all the fictional hamlets American writers have planted, from William Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha County to Garrison Keillor's Lake Wobegon, the most complex, luminous place yet might be a little town called Argus, North Dakota. Since she first introduced the town in Love Medicine (1984), Louise Erdrich has gone back to it continually, conjuring the reservation it abuts, the love affairs which bolt...
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Emdashes (Free subscription) | 05/30/2008
Not too long ago, I raved about the podcast of Lorrie Moore's story, "Dance in America," which was featured in April on The New Yorker website. Guess that was well timed, because The Collected Stories of Lorrie Moore has recently been published. If you're
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Make Something Today (Free subscription) | 05/30/2008
My sister has given me some amazing presents over the years and this birthday was no different. She knows that Louise Erdrich is my all time favorite author. I was completely surprised when my sister gave me this autographed co
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Campaign for the American Reader (Free subscription) | 05/19/2008
Louise Erdrich is the author of twelve novels as well as volumes of poetry, children's books, and a memoir of early motherhood. Her novel Love Medicine won the National Book Critics Circle Award and The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse was a finalist for the National Book Award. Erdrich's latest novel is The Plague of Doves. She shared with Newsweek a list of her five most
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JSOnline (Free subscription) | 05/12/2008
The first quick scene, a snatch of an event, in Louise Erdrich's new novel "The Plague of Doves," is horrific. And it does not make sense until far later in the novel.
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Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 05/08/2008
In "The Plague of Doves," Louise Erdrich revisits the harsh and many-storied land that has figured so prominently in her novels and short stories, a place where early would-be settlers face the most hostile conditions imaginable.
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Christian Science Monitor (Free subscription) | 05/06/2008
Past and present overlap in Louise Erdrich's lyrical new novel.
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USA Today (Free subscription) | 05/01/2008
Louise Erdrich's monumental new novel, The Plague of Doves, begins with a chilling scene that contains no violence but implies ...
