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In Her Own Words: Laura Ingalls Wilder
As Alison Gazarek noted in Monday’s provocative profile of Laura Ingalls Wilder, the stories Wilder told in the Little House on the Prairie series are products of their times. They don’t always deal...
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In Her Own Words: Zora Neale Hurston
On the surface, Zora Neale Hurston may have appeared to embody a mass of contradictions, both personal and political; but as Edward Porter points out in Monday’s profile, in her work Hurston sought “to...
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In His Own Words: Gaston Leroux
by Vicraj Gill In Monday’s feature piece, Nicki Leone explored the thin line between fact and fantasy often present in Gaston Leroux’s work. Sensational prose style notwithstanding, however, the...
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In Her Own Words: Diana Athill
In Monday’s feature on Diana Athill, Amy Weldon showed us the many facets of Athill’s accomplishments—writing, editing, and publishing; the quest to find an identity beyond the constraints of gender;...
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In His Own Words: W.G. Sebald
“He’s a playful experimenter,” says Robert Goree of W.G. Sebald, “even if his themes are weighty.” One sees both playfulness and weight in the following quotes from Sebald’s fiction and poetry....
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Lost and Found in Alaska: How Stories Find Us
by Colleen Mondor In 1932 two men were involved in a fatal crevasse fall on Mt. McKinley. Allen Carpé and Theodore Koven were scientists and mountaineers taking part in the Cosmic Ray Expedition. Armed...
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IN HIS OWN WORDS: Eugen Ruge
On Monday, Jill Kronstadt took a look at In Times of Fading Light (In Zeiten des abnehmenden Lichts; 2011)—Eugen Ruge’s debut novel, which explores the way the politics and history of the German...
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See It Then, See It Now
by Dena Santoro A vagrant wanders empty ruins. Suddenly he’s wealthy. But don’t be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth, without complicated explanation, so...
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IN HIS OWN WORDS: Daniyal Mueenuddin
In Monday’s feature on Daniyal Mueenuddin, Nicki Leone looks at his debut short story collection, In Other Rooms, Other Wonders. The quotes below tell some of his side of the story—his genesis as a...
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IN HER OWN WORDS: Annie Proulx
It seems that, for Annie Proulx, it’s always been about the story. Interviews reveal her to be a voracious reader, as well as entirely at ease with having debuted as a writer in her 50s. And one has...
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IN HER OWN WORDS: Barbara Anderson
In Monday’s feature piece on Barbara Anderson, Sue Dickman describes the writer’s fierce talent and dry wit, the universal appeal of her work, and her keen perspectives on the evolving lives of women...
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IN HIS OWN WORDS: Norman Rush
On Monday, Jennifer Acker Shah established Norman Rush’s novels as ones of ideas in the tradition of Henry James. The quotes below represent many of those ideas, like Rush’s keen observations of...
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IN HER OWN WORDS: Penelope Fitzgerald
In Monday’s feature, Evelyn Somers describes the straits in which Penelope Fitzgerald lived for much of her life. Those difficult circumstances led Fitzgerald to produce moving prose, often with a...
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IN HER OWN WORDS: Ellen Meloy
In Monday’s feature, Jane Hammons wrote movingly of the work of naturalist and nonfiction writer Ellen Meloy. The quotes below reveal what makes Meloy’s writing about nature, landscapes, history, and...
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IN HIS OWN WORDS: Nicholson Baker
The following quotes from the novels, nonfiction, and interviews of Nicholson Baker reveal what Sonya Chung called “[t]he fluidity between high culture and mass culture” evident in books like 2009’s...
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IN HIS OWN WORDS: Edward P. Jones
In Monday’s profile, Edward Porter wrote about Edward P. Jones’s life and literary career, identifying many of the author’s foremost preoccupations: race, life and death, and the way memory and...
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IN HER OWN WORDS: P.D. James
Monday brought us an excellent profile of the crime writer P.D. James, and the quotes below reveal many of the characteristics that define James’s work. They show us the author’s dry wit and clear...
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IN HIS OWN WORDS: Bruno Schulz
His writing might lead you to believe otherwise, but as Nicki Leone shows us in Monday’s feature piece, Bruno Schulz “did not spring forth suddenly and fully formed” as a writer in middle age. His...
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Q&A with Vaddey Ratner
by Terry Hong Almost two years after Vaddey Ratner made her New York Times bestselling debut with In the Shadow of the Banyan—her fictionalized account of her survival, as a young child, of the Khmer...
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IN HIS OWN WORDS: Hesh Kestin
In Lisa Peet’s profile of “recovering journalist” Hesh Kestin, he was generously forthcoming about growing up in Brooklyn, 20 years as a foreign correspondent, and his philosophy of writing. Below are...
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