A Novel That Stirs Interest in Short Stories
Olive Kitteridge is enthralling and appalling, and it might cause novel readers to find themselves falling... in love again with short stories.
Olive Kitteridge is enthralling and appalling, and it might cause novel readers to find themselves falling... in love again with short stories.
Ann Bauer | Posted 05.04.2012
During the long year that The Forever Marriage was circulating, I sought out portraits of imperfect but redeemable women.
npr.org | By Carol Shields | Posted 07.04.2011
My mom was a stay-at-home, bake-from-scratch, children-come-first mother. It was a wonderful way to grow up, but I never considered following in her f...
Ilana Teitelbaum | Posted 05.25.2011
In her inability to feel content with her life, with the "blackness" that accompanies her through her household tasks and is often expressed through anger and even cruelty, Olive seems, in a way, to be too big for the town that has always been her home.
Jay Silverman | Posted 05.25.2011
When Beverly Jensen, my wife, was dying in 2003, she feared she'd been given talents and had not used them. But in fact she had.
The Huffington Post | Jessie Kunhardt | Posted 05.25.2011
Is it an accident, the judging panels, a mini-trend or are the tides turning? With the sweep of this year's literary awards, all eyes are on the women...
Holly Goddard Jones | Posted 05.25.2011
I'm a southern Kentucky native -- grew up just a few miles away from the Tennessee state line, turned to Nashville in my growing up as the nearest "real" city -- and yet this weekend's Southern Festival of Books was my very first.
The Huffington Post | Erica Jong | Posted 05.25.2011
We have known that women could write since Sappho invented love poetry 2600 years ago. Emily Dickinson, Charlotte Bronte, Jane Austen, George Eliot co...
Amy Hungerford | Posted 05.25.2011
The slow sell can't be done pre-publication. It requires -- wait for it -- reading. My last week's reading is a case in point: I read David Mitchell's Black Swan Green.
Dave Astor | Posted 05.17.2012