See What Can Be Done

Essays, Criticism, and Commentary

De: Lorrie Moore

Narrado por: Bernadette Dunne

Duración: 16 h y 33 m

Resumen del Editor

A welcome surprise: more than 50 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 (the works of V. S. Pritchett, Don DeLillo, Philip Roth, Joyce Carol Oates, Alice Munro, Stanley Elkin, Dawn Powell, Nicholson Baker, et al.); on the continuing unequal state of race in America; on the shock of the shocking GOP; on the dangers (and cruel truths) of celebrity marriages and love affairs; on the wilds of television (The Wire, Friday Night Lights, Into the Abyss, Girls, Homeland, True Detective, Making a Murderer); on the (d)evolving environment; on terrorism, the historical imagination, and the world's newest form of novelist; on the lesser (and larger) lives of biography and the midwifery between art and life (Anais Nin, Marilyn Monroe, John Cheever, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Eudora Welty, Bernard Malamud, among others); on the high art of being Helen Gurley Brown; and much, much more.

©2018 Lorrie Moore (P)2018 Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Reseñas de la Crítica

"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." (Harper's Magazine)

"[Narrator Bernadette] Dunne ably brings to life Moore's astute critical commentary. She also captures the nuances of Moore's shifting tone, which is by turns reflective, inquisitive, musing, playful - and always curious. Listeners who are fans of Moore's sharp insights or interested in reflecting on our nation's history as refracted through landmark works and cultural events will enjoy sampling this collection." (AudioFile)

I love this

One of my all time favorite writers and I really love her POV and voice. Subtly funny, incisive, & intelligent. I wish I could write half as well. Her review of The Wire is so good. I found a lot of content in here that I’m now interested in reading/watching/listening to.

Pretty Good

Book reviews, mostly, from Lorrie Moore. A short story maven, she has great insights into contemporary short story collections and authors.