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Catherwood and Quee
Jill McCorkle reads from and discusses her novel Carolina Moon, which “recounts the adventures of Queen Mary Stutts Purdy–Quee, to her friends–and her god-daughter Denise. It combines love story, murder mystery, and self-help satire.” [Wayne Pond]
In the second interview [15:00], novelist Marly Youmans reads from and discusses Catherwood, “a compelling story of a mother and daughter lost in the beautiful but dangerous American wilderness in the year 1676. Publishers Weekly calls Catherwood ‘subtle but magnetic…a historical romance (with time and place authentically and indelibly rendered) and a study of motherhood’s most primitive impulses.’” [Wayne Pond]
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Tagged Colonial-era America, Fiction, New York, North Carolina, Novelist, Satire
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Asking for Love
The critics agree — Roxana Robinson‘s fiction is masterful (Alice Munro), elegant and tender (Mary Gordon), a striking blend of nuance, empathy, and wit (Publishers Weekly). She writes about old-moneyed families of Manhattan, Connecticut, Long Island, and Maine, the inhabitants of summer homes and town houses, boarding schools and private clubs. But her characters are as contemporary as today’s teenagers rendered in a style that is concise and unsparingly honest yet tempered by sympathy and a basic understanding of human nature. Ms. Robinson reads from and talks about her new collection of stories, Asking for Love.
Story and Song
Eudora Welty sits for an interview at the National Humanities Center
Helen Vendler‘s recent books include Voices and Visions: American Poets (Random House) and The Music of What Happens: Essays on Poetry and Criticism (Harvard University Press).
Eudora Welty‘s recent books include One Writer’s Beginnings (Warner Books, 1985).
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Tagged Literary Criticism, Literature, Novelist, Poetry, Pulitzer Prize
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