Thanks Once Again, Lorrie Moore

by marionroach on September 25, 2009

gate at the stairs coverLORRIE MOORE IS MESMERIZING. Reading her recent book has put me in a sort of trance-like state, going about my business, all the while thinking about who we are and how we got there, post 9/11. The book is called A Gate at the Stairs (Alfred A. Knopf, 2009), and it takes place in the Midwest, and starts quietly, gently inducing this state of transit to real thought in the most subtle of writerly gestures, posing the topics to us as illustrated in a thorny sisterhood between some women and one child. [click to continue…]

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Cheers, Lorrie Moore, Cheers!

by marionroach on January 13, 2009

JANUARY 13th brought us the birthday of Lorrie Moore, short-story writer and author of one of the greatest coming-of-age novels featuring girl-team-friendship ever written, the wondrous, Who Will Run the Frog Hospital? Seeing her recently referred to in The Guardian (of London) as “the finest short story writer in America today,” I laughed out loud with joy. It’s true. If there is a snappier writer of fiction, I can’t think of her. [click to continue…]

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