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11 Jan 2012, 5:09 am by Bill
Lorrie Moore reviews Suzzy Roche's new novel. [read post]
2 Oct 2010, 10:10 am by annalthouse@gmail.com (Ann Althouse)
Argues Lorrie Moore (who's not saluting but having trouble keeping the light out of her eyes): I love the idea that what we want from reading is to intertwine our minds with the mind of another human being and I understand why Moore connects that to freedom from commerce and why she find that purity in fiction. [read post]
19 Apr 2014, 2:03 am by Family Law
From the Atlantic: When Lorrie Moore, acclaimed author of A Gate at The Stairs and Birds of America, released Bark, her first short story collection in 16 years, on February 25th, critics were dismayed to find that such a long... [read post]
25 Apr 2011, 10:33 am by annalthouse@gmail.com (Ann Althouse)
I'm reading this NYRB essay by Lorrie Moore and I get to this passage: Barbara dies at fifty-five—the halfway point of the book. [read post]
9 Mar 2016, 11:05 am by Tom Smith
More recently, Wisconsin is starting to become known less for its ever-struggling left-wing politics or artistic figures—Thornton Wilder, Laura Ingalls Wilder—than for its ever-wilder murderers. [read post]
11 Dec 2013, 2:32 pm
The novelist Lorrie Moore, writing about that new movie with the very long lesbian sex scene, "Blue Is the Warmest Color." [read post]
6 Aug 2017, 10:03 am by Tom Smith
A year after my misbegotten Stills-off I attended a sold-out concert in Nashville by the Long Players, a tribute band that performs one single album from start to finish at each of its concerts. [read post]
6 Apr 2020, 10:19 am
"From "The Nurse’s Office/Desiring only to be Santa Claus in his very own Christmas movie, Donald Trump has a voice like that of a pet owner calming a pet" by the very highly regarded writer Lorrie Moore (in The New Yorker). [read post]
4 May 2020, 6:47 am
"From a New Yorker interview with the writer Lorrie Moore.The last question in the interview is about something Moore wrote in the New Yorker last month about finding Trump's voice "reassuring. [read post]
15 Feb 2015, 6:06 am
Sounds like one of my nightmares, but I guess that really happened to the fiction writer Lorrie Moore. [read post]
26 Jul 2012, 5:00 am by Charlotte Law Library
Luckily, I can recommend other writers like Jess Walter, so that when he’s between novels you can check out the likes of Andrew Miller, Benjamin Kunzel, Mark Costello, ZZ Packer, David Wong Louie, Colson Whitehead, Joshua Ferris, Miranda July, Sam Lipsyte, Andrew Sean Greer, David Ebershoff, Lorrie Moore, and Tim Winton. [read post]
22 Sep 2019, 8:03 am
" As in the "Water Dancer" review, Garner names a lot of other writers, and unlike the "Water Dancer" review, this review has some solid quotes from the author to prove the praise is soundly based on artistic merit:Here’s a sample of this writer’s sociological acumen — her ability, like Tom Wolfe by way of Lorrie Moore, to cram observation into a tight space:“The ’80s hipster bore no resemblance to the bearded and effeminate… [read post]
6 Mar 2012, 5:11 am by Chris Bradley
Divorce is the topic in Lorrie Moore’s short story “Paper Losses,” and in this story the protagonist, Kit (“Katherine” in the petition) struggles with the fact that her husband has, figuratively, turned into a space alien. [read post]
22 Apr 2023, 9:03 pm by News Desk
Company director, Christopher John Moore, was fined $13,000 (U.S. $9,700) for not preventing the offense from being committed. [read post]
11 Sep 2006, 8:45 pm
Anderson, Emily Barton, Stephen Elliott, Tim Green, Carl Hiaasen, Edward P.Jones, John Lescroart, Elinor Lipman, Phillip Margolin, Lorrie Moore, Patricia Polacco, Douglas Preston, Francine Prose, and Chris Ware. [read post]