Edna O’Brien’s The Love Object

2025-03-25T09:11:28-04:00

In interview with Harriet Gilbert, when meeting to discuss her landmark work The Country Girls as part of the BBC's World Book Club, Edna O'Brien speaks about the relationship in that novel between a young woman and a married man referred to as Mr. Gentleman. Little, Brown and Company, 2015

Edna O’Brien’s The Love Object2025-03-25T09:11:28-04:00

Beth Powning’s A Measure of Light (2015)

2021-06-04T15:00:40-04:00

If you recognize Mary Dyer as being one of the Boston Martyrs, you will expect Beth Powning's tale to be a harrowing one. To some extent, this is the case. Knopf - Penguin Random House, 2015 But even if the historical record considers the most remarkable aspect of Mary

Beth Powning’s A Measure of Light (2015)2021-06-04T15:00:40-04:00

“Face” Alice Munro

2017-07-25T11:22:56-04:00

"You think that would have changed things?" "The answer is of course, and for a while, and never." In interview with Eleanor Wachtel, Nick Hornby discusses the "problem of being divided being two worlds" saying that many of us have a version of this in our own lives. This is true

“Face” Alice Munro2017-07-25T11:22:56-04:00

Summer Reading To-Do List for Stormy Days (4 of 4)

2024-04-04T09:44:24-04:00

Such good reading this summer, so far. In other respects, perhaps mine has not been the most productive summer. But it all depends what one puts on a to-do list, doesn't it! What if your to-do list was all about the books in your stacks? House of Anansi, 2015

Summer Reading To-Do List for Stormy Days (4 of 4)2024-04-04T09:44:24-04:00

Summer Reading To-Do List for Sunny Days (2 of 4)

2020-03-31T12:14:55-04:00

Such good reading this summer, so far. In other respects, perhaps mine has not been the most productive summer. But it all depends what one puts on a to-do list, doesn't it! What if your to-do list was all about the books in your stacks? Little, Brown and Company, 2015

Summer Reading To-Do List for Sunny Days (2 of 4)2020-03-31T12:14:55-04:00
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