Alison L. Strayer

Jan 15, 2025 | fivebooks.com | Annie Ernaux |Alison L. Strayer |T. Kira Madden |Melissa Febos

Thank you for choosing these memoirs of girlhood: five female coming-of-age stories. Why do you find it such a compelling subject? I think we spend our lifetimes trying to make sense of it. These are our most formative years, the years when how we think—our very brain structure, according to neuroscience—is being shaped. During puberty, similarly to post-partum, our brains show radical changes. So, we live with the repercussions of our girlhoods.

Oct 3, 2024 | southwestreview.com | Alison L. Strayer

“I wonder if I haven’t simply explored and brought together in [this] text the twofold fascination I’ve always had with photography and the material traces of presence. A fascination, now more than ever, with time.”—Annie Ernaux, The Use of PhotographyI went to see Annie Ernaux at her home in Cergy at the end of April 2024. The travel time is just over an hour by RER suburban train (Réseau Express Régional) from where I live in Paris.

Feb 7, 2024 | exchanges.uiowa.edu | Annie Ernaux |Alison L. Strayer

The Young ManBy Annie Ernaux, translated from the French by Alison L. StrayerSeven Stories Press, 62 pp., $13.95 (paper)Review by Jacquelyn BengfortSeven Stories Press has served as Annie Ernaux’s American publisher since the early 1990s, and published Getting Lost, the English translation of Se perdre, just days before the announcement that she won the 2022 Nobel Prize in Literature.

Oct 14, 2023 | dnews.com | Annie Ernaux |Alison L. Strayer

NEILL PUBLIC LIBRARY“The Six: The Untold Story of America’s First Women Astronauts” by Loren Grush“Suspenseful, meticulously observed, enlightening” says Margot Lee Shetterly, author of “Hidden Figures.” Grush writes of the first six women to be selected by NASA as astronauts to take to space in NASA’s Space Shuttle.

Sep 12, 2023 | bookshop.org | Annie Ernaux |Alison L. Strayer

(Author) (Translator) FORMAT Paperback$13.95$12.97(English) Buy new or used from an indie through our partner Biblio: Price Condition Seller WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE Annie Ernaux's most recent book, dazzling and breathtaking, published in France in 2022, is about her affair with a man 30 years her junior.