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Classes started this week. My writing students read “People Like That Are the Only People Here,” by Lorrie Moore. They love her. Here’s the best part of that story, about her infant son’s cancer: “How can it be described? How can any of it be described? The trip and the story of the trip are always [...]
Campaign for the American Reader (Free subscription) | 08/27/2008
The current featured contributor to Writers Read: Robin Benway, author of Audrey, Wait!. The concluding paragraph from her entry: Other books on the "Read Now" pile that I'm trying to get to before summer ends: The Children's Hospital by Chris Adrian, Anagrams by Lorrie Moore, and Laurel Canyon by Michael Walker. For every book I finish, it seems that three more take its place. [read more] About
Sydney Morning Herald (Free subscription) | 08/23/2008
From a punning start to a sweetish finish, Lorrie Moore gives us 20 years of virtuosic wit.
Largehearted Boy (Free subscription) | 08/05/2008
In the Book Notes series, authors create and discuss a music playlist that is in some way relevant to their recently published books. Danit Brown has drawn comparisons to Lorrie Moore, Philip Roth, and others with her interconnected collection...
Languagehat.com (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
I'm going to quote the first sentence of Jenny Turner's review of Lorrie Moore's The Collected Stories : "Once upon a time, as Lorrie Moore begins, 'there was a not terribly prolific American short-story writer who, caught ten years between books with things she called Life and others called Excuses, was asked to write an introduction to her own Collected Stories .'" I want you to mull the sentence...
CRITICAL MASS (Free subscription) | 07/11/2008
Re-reading Lorrie Moore's "Birds of America," since there's been a flurry of reviews of her new " Collected Stories ." A few of the stories felt brittler, more same-y than I'd remembered-some stylistic and tonal tics a bit more evident (snappy characters self-interrupting their thoughts with witty albeit desperate exclamations and asides!). But still, all in all, a marvel-the much-praised "People Like...
New Statesman (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
The Collected Stories Lorrie Moore Faber & Faber, 672pp, £20 In the introduction to Collected Stories (1978), John Cheever regretted that the order of the stories was not reversed, on the grounds that "any precise documentation of one's immaturity is embarrassing". Thirty years later, Lorrie Moore has acted on the impulse that short-story writers often feel (but novelists rarely do) to distance themselves...
Maud Newton (Free subscription) | 07/09/2008
Last month Emma Brockes reported that Lorrie Moore was about to deliver her third novel.
Esquire.com (Free subscription) | 07/08/2008
Lorrie Moore is one of my favorite short story writers—I, like droves of others, love the obsessive self-consciousness of her characters, the preciseness of her language, her off-handed style. So imagine my delight when I discovered ther...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 07/07/2008
Arts & entertainment: Podcast: Lorrie Moore, whose Collected Stories have been published to wide acclaim, reads a characteristically acerbic tale of a once-happy marriage that is now 'a dance team of bad feeling'
Bookninja (Free subscription) | 06/30/2008
Profiled in the SMH around her obsessive behaviour that leads to writing. Moore often says in interviews that her real life is too boring to talk about. She grew up in Glen Falls, a small town in upstate New York, and after graduating from St Lawrence University, lived for a couple of years in Manhattan before [...]
The Sheila Variations (Free subscription) | 06/17/2008
I absolutely loved reading this recent interview with writer Lorrie Moore. There was so much I needed to hear, first of all ... and I admire and love her writing so much. And anyone who faces awkward stressful situations by...
Radar (Free subscription) | 06/16/2008
Today's New York mag roundup of guest star obits for the Hillary Clinton campaign is bizarre! (It is reminiscent of, although nowhere near as toxic as, their group package on the characters of the Martha Stewart trial, which included this nutso defense of
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 06/07/2008
'I had such a reaction to the academic culture that I used to ask myself, what would Goldie Hawn do?' Lorrie Moore talks to Emma Brockes
Maud Newton (Free subscription) | 06/05/2008
Lorrie Moore’s music to drink gin to includes “Almost Blue.” (Via.) She likes the Krall cover; for me there’s only the one (sans hokey video).
