Jeffrey Eugenides

The Real Value of a College Education

Jonathan D. Fitzgerald | Posted 04.24.2012

Read More: Novels, Education, The Marriage Plot, Everything Is a Remix, Freshman Composition, College, Jeffrey Eugenides, Writing, College News

Yesterday, it happened. A student hit me with the question that many educators dread, "When are we ever going to use this in life?"

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Why Male Authors Are More Successful Than Female Authors

Pamela Redmond Satran | Posted 04.17.2012

Read More: Tom Perrota, The Marriage Plot, Female Authors, Writing, Sexism, Freedom, Jonathan Franzen, Jeffrey Eugenides, Male Authors, Books News

It would be as comforting as it is infuriating to believe that, but I'm not so sure. It's not so much that Jonathan Franzen is eating my lunch, I'm afraid, as that he's eating the lunch I should be eating, could be eating, but, through my own damn fault, have not been freaking eating.

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On the Women of Freedom and The Marriage Plot

Sabina Murray | Posted 04.07.2012

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Literary novels like The Marriage Plot and Freedom that reach a broad a readership are rare cultural opportunities to create dialogue about the societies represented within, the people represented within, and the women represented within.

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The Marriage Plot -- An Ordinary Year in the Life of Three Liberal Arts Graduates?

Daniel Kessel | Posted 03.11.2012

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The Marriage Plot, written in an age where the meaning of marriage has diminished ambiguously, and where the novel is an obsolete art form, establishes for itself an impossible task: to surmount its own uselessness.

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Memorable Books Of 2011

Regina Weinreich | Posted 03.02.2012

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Languishing on a beach chair in my winter outpost by a turquoise sea, I have only books on my mind. Here are a few that have pleased and provoked.

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Please, Just Get Married Already: The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides

Ilana Teitelbaum | Posted 02.26.2012

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The Marriage Plot is entertaining but I was hoping for more substance in a novel that is being hailed as a literary classic in the making.

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Traveling Magazine Sets Anchor In Detroit

Posted 11.29.2011

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The nomadic creative publication Boat magazine recently released its second issue -- with Detroit as theme and temporary home base. The magazine is...

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The Marriage Plot: Why We Love It

Posted 12.11.2011

Read More: Modern Love, The Marriage Plot, Love Triangle, Jeffrey Eugenides New Books, Jeffrey Eugenides, Books, Books We Love, Brown University, Women News

The Book: The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides Why We Love It: Eugenides takes the love triangle of 19th century novels and reimagines it on an I...

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Jeffery Eugenides On Love And Books

Madeleine Crum | Posted 02.16.2012

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If you walk through Times Square in New York right now, you'll be met with a rare site: a book-themed billboard. A stern-faced Jeffery Eugenides strid...

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The Most Anticipated Books of Fall 2011

Anis Shivani | Posted 12.11.2011

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As usual, fall is when the big guns come out. Exciting novels by major writers like Ha Jin, Haruki Murakami, Umberto Eco, Jeffrey Eugenides and Russell Banks.

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Karen O's Reveals Her Psychotic Opera, Bjork Gets App-y

Posted 12.10.2011

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Monday, October 10 The "Bored to Death" boys return for more nutty adventures and man love. Tune in at 9 p.m. on HBO. Tuesday, October 11...

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Fifteen of This Millennium's Top Novels

Dave Astor | Posted 10.29.2011

These aren't necessarily the best novels of the past 11 years, because there are acclaimed books I've yet to read.

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Amazon Editors' Top 10 Fall Books

Posted 10.09.2011

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Amazon.com has announced a top ten list of books for the fall. Chris Schluep, a Senior Editor at Amazon.com books, calls it "one of the best seasons f...

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Author Punched In The Face

Posted 09.24.2011

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On Sunday, The New York Post reported that Pulitzer Prize winning author Jeffrey Eugenides was attacked on a New Jersey train on his way home from Ma...

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Reading Retreats: How To Get Away From Everything But Your Books

salon.com | Drew Grant | Posted 09.11.2011

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I'll be absent from these pages for the next four weeks while I hole up in a cabin far from both the Internet and reliable cell phone reception. Whene...

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Book Cover Design: Where The Cover Of Your Favorite Novel Comes From

The Atlantic | CHARLOTTE STRICK | Posted 05.25.2011

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Every three months or so, we gather together. In our hands, launch meeting packets still hot off the copy machine. Our editor-in-chief sits at the hea...

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Favorite Rereads: What Do You Come Back To Time And Time Again? (PHOTOS)

The Huffington Post | Zoe Triska | Posted 09.26.2011

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Author François Mauriac once said, "Tell me what you read and I'll tell you who you are' is true enough, but I'd know you better if you told me what ...

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