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See What Can Be Done: Essays, Criticism, and Commentary

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A welcome surprise: more than fifty prose pieces, gathered together for the first time, by one of America's most revered and admired novelists and short-story writers, whose articles, essays, and cultural commentary--appearing in The New York Review of Books, The New York Times Book Review, The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The Guardian, Harper's Magazine, and elsewhere--have been parsing the political, artistic, and media idiom for the last three decades.

From Lorrie Moore's earliest reviews of novels by Margaret Atwood and Nora Ephron, to an essay on Ezra Edelman's 2016 O.J. Simpson documentary, and in between: Moore on the writing of fiction . . . on the continuing unequal state of race in America . . . on the shock of the shocking GOP . . . on the dangers of celebrity marriages and love affairs . . . on the wilds of television . . . on the evolving environment . . . on terrorism, the historical imagination, and the world's newest form of novelist . . . on the lesser lives of biography and the midwifery between art and life . . . and on the high art of being Helen Gurley Brown . . . and much, much more.
"Fifty years from now, it may well turn out that the work of very few American writers has as much to say about what it means to be alive in our time as that of Lorrie Moore" .

Pages: 407

Format: Hardcover

Release: April 03, 2018

ISBN 13: 9781524732486

See What Can Be Done: Essays, Criticism, and Commentary

0/5 ( ratings)

A welcome surprise: more than fifty prose pieces, gathered together for the first time, by one of America's most revered and admired novelists and short-story writers, whose articles, essays, and cultural commentary--appearing in The New York Review of Books, The New York Times Book Review, The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The Guardian, Harper's Magazine, and elsewhere--have been parsing the political, artistic, and media idiom for the last three decades.

From Lorrie Moore's earliest reviews of novels by Margaret Atwood and Nora Ephron, to an essay on Ezra Edelman's 2016 O.J. Simpson documentary, and in between: Moore on the writing of fiction . . . on the continuing unequal state of race in America . . . on the shock of the shocking GOP . . . on the dangers of celebrity marriages and love affairs . . . on the wilds of television . . . on the evolving environment . . . on terrorism, the historical imagination, and the world's newest form of novelist . . . on the lesser lives of biography and the midwifery between art and life . . . and on the high art of being Helen Gurley Brown . . . and much, much more.
"Fifty years from now, it may well turn out that the work of very few American writers has as much to say about what it means to be alive in our time as that of Lorrie Moore" .

Pages: 407

Format: Hardcover

Release: April 03, 2018

ISBN 13: 9781524732486

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