Topic: Jayne Anne Phillips
Hilary Mantel, Mary Karr among nominees for National Book Critics Circle prizeMan Booker Prize winner Hilary Mantel and National Book Award finalists Jayne Anne Phillips and Bonnie Jo Campbell were among the nominees announced Saturday night for the National Book Critics Circle ...
I grew up in the dense, verdant Appalachia of the '50s and '60s. Buckhannon was a town of 6,500 or so then, nestled in the foothills of the Allegheny Mountains of north-central West Virginia.. I know now that I loved Buckhannon ...
In 1830, a brutal crime in Massachusetts riveted the nation-and inspired the writings of Edgar Allan Poe and Nathaniel Hawthorne November 2010 | By E.J. Wagner . Written in the 1950s, The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond was forgotten until it was recently ...
Bill Owens was seeking a fresh take on suburban life when he spotted a plastic-rifle-toting boy named Richie Ferguson October 2010 | By Owen Edwards . She didn't plan on staying, but more than 20 years later novelist Patricia Henley embraces her adopted ...
The Pacific Northwest City captivated the author first when she was an adventure seeking adolescent and again as an adult November 2010 | By Katherine Dunn . Travel writer Pico Iyer remains both fascinated and puzzled by the ancient Japanese city June 2010 | By ...
Subject People Artists Writers Results 1 - 20 of 84 Explore more American Writers . Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist J.R. Moehringer rolls the dice on life in Sin City October 2010 | By J.R. Moehringer . From the first issue 40 years ago, Smithsonian has ...
A community in the Allegheny foothills nurtured novelist Jayne Anne Phillips' talent for storytelling January 2010 | By Jayne Anne Phillips . "I'm 15. I'm getting married.
Like her now-classic Machine Dreams and Black Tickets, Jayne Anne Phillips's latest novel tackles the consequences of war, poverty and natural disaster. These themes, and Phillips's imagistic language, dominate the novel, sometimes overshadowing its compelling characters. Chapters shift in time ...
In a sidebar in the Jan. 12 issue of The New Yorker, Hilton Als quotes Paul Celan about surviving the Nazi death camps: In spite of everything, it remained secure against loss.In the first dozen pages of Jayne Anne Phillips remarkable ...
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Jayne Anne Phillips reads "Cheers"
July 22, 2010, NY State Summer Writers Institute, Saratoga Springs ...2010-07-30 -
Jayne Anne Phillips at the NYS ...
Jayne Anne Phillips at the New York State Writers Institute ...2009-01-30 -
Jayne Anne Phillips and TC Boyle
www.92y.org Jayne Anne Phillips and TC Boyle read ...2009-12-15
