Jeffrey Eugenides

Sep 26, 2024 | yalereview.org | Jeffrey Eugenides

Jeffrey Eugenides Through the bamboo Mitchell watched the German woman, his fellow invalid, making another trip to the outhouse. She came out onto the porch of her hut, holding a hand over her eyes—it was murderously sunny out—while her other, somnambulistic hand searched for the beach towel hanging over the railing. Finding it, she draped the towel loosely, only just extenuatingly, over her otherwise unclothed body, and staggered out into the sun. She came right by Mitchell’s hut.

Jul 17, 2024 | lithub.com | Jeffrey Eugenides

“Colm Tóibín is the kindest person in the world.” Don’t take my word for it. That’s a quote. The speaker was my six-year-old daughter, Georgia; the time almost exactly twenty years ago. Colm and I were attending the Parati Literary Festival, in Brazil. Among the other participants that year were many writers who have received The Medal of Honor for Achievement in Literature, including Martin Amis, Margaret Atwood, and Paul Auster. They were all down there, apparently being less kind than Colm.

May 31, 2024 | calitreview.com | Jeffrey Eugenides |Erin Suzuki

The Marriage PlotFarrar, Straus and Giroux, 416 pp. CLR [rating:3.5]Love in the Time of Lithium“To start with, look at all the books.” Jeffrey Eugenides’s eagerly-anticipated third novel, The Marriage Plot, opens with a catalogue of a college student’s bookshelf. Spanning a range of appropriately literary titles from Jane Austen to John Updike, the collection serves as an introduction to both its owner, Madeleine Hanna, and the primary preoccupation of the novel.

Apr 8, 2024 | trinity.edu | Kevin Canty |Jennifer Egan |Nora Ephron |Jeffrey Eugenides

From 2010 up until her death earlier this year, Coleen Grissom, Ph.D., Trinity University professor emerita of English, had written a column for nearly every issue of Trinity magazine detailing her latest reads. With her trademark wit and gruffly humorous, yet thoughtful, commentary, Grissom recommended her latest “Lit Picks,” or “Recs for the Literati,” as the column was known before its name change in the mid-2010s.

Dec 11, 2023 | welt.de | Jeffrey Eugenides

Ich hatte schon mit 16 beschlossen, Schriftsteller zu werden, hatte es aber nicht eilig, veröffentlicht zu werden. Virginia Woolfs Diktum, niemand solle vor 30 einen Roman veröffentlichen, schien mir ganz vernünftig. Ein unreifer, autobiografischer Roman übers Erwachsenwerden mit allen Anzeichen von Lehrlingszeit musste nicht sein. Lass dir Zeit, feile an deinem Handwerk und bring etwas Unpeinliches, wenn du erwachsen geworden bist. Diese Philosophie kam mir in meinen ganzen Zwanzigern gut zupass.