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Lorrie Moore: “Referential”
Click here to read the abstract of the story on The New Yorker webpage (this week’s story is available only for subscribers). Lorrie Moore’s “Referential” was originally published in the May 28, 2012 issue of The New Yorker. Click for a larger image. Thi from The Mookse and the Gripes Read more »
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This Week in Fiction: Lorrie Moore
Your story in this week’s issue, “Referential,” is a kind of tribute to Vladimir Nabokov’s story “Signs and Symbols,” which also involves a visit to a schizophrenic son in a psychiatric hospital (and was published in The New Yorker in 1948). What are the from The New Yorker Read more »
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Lorrie Moore: Richard Ford’s terse poetry in “Canada.”
ABSTRACT: BOOKS review of Richard Ford’s “Canada” (Ecco). Ford is a writer of personal fascination to many in the literary world. Charming and charmed, he is an embodiment of interesting and intimidating contradictions: the Southern childhood, the Midwes from The New Yorker Read more »
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About the Short Story, How (by Lorrie Moore)
1. What kind of the person is the main character (You) in Lorrie Moore’s short story, How? According to the description inside the contents, the woman, you, is a white-collar class office lady at the age of mid-thirty or older by speculation. We can impl from OpPapers.com Read more »
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Wry, young everywoman in 9/11 era
In Lorrie Moore’s breezy yet profound new novel, “A Gate at the Stairs,’’ the 20-year-old narrator concludes that “to ease the suffering of the listener, things had better be funny.’’ Viewed from Tassie Keltjin’s innocent yet ironic perspective, things a from Boston.com Read more »
