Lorrie Moore

2 weeks ago | fivebooks.com | George Saunders |Lorrie Moore |David Sedaris |Katherine Heiny

Here at Five Books, we are often asked to recommend funny short story collections. This is a tall order. It’s unusually difficult to recommend comic writing—sense of humour being so specific to the individual—but here are five brilliantly original stories, from popular collections, all of which take a wry or surreal approach to their troubling subject matter.   ‘Ghoul’ by George Saunders, in his collection Liberation Day: Stories George Saunders is a modern master of the short story.

Dec 6, 2024 | mcnallyrobinson.com | Lorrie Moore |Lauren Groff

I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home Hardcover $34.00Reader Reward Price: $30.60 Fiction / LiteraryFiction / GhostFiction / Humorous / Black Humor"Get ready to expand your sense of what Lorrie Moore--and a novel--can do." --Ron Charles, The Washington Post, on A Gate at the StairsFrom "one of the most acute and lasting writers of her generation" (Caryn James, )--a daring novel, her first in more than a decade, about love and death and what lies between and after.

Nov 22, 2024 | standaard.be | Lorrie Moore

De Amerikaanse auteur Lorrie Moore over sympathie voor Ted Hughes, onorthodoxe bewerkingen van Shakespeare, en de troost die kookboeken kunnen bieden. Bio Lorrie Moore (1957) is een Amerikaanse auteur en essayist. Ze schrijft vooral korte verhalen (Self-help) en romans (I am homeless if this is not my home). Waarschijnlijk De tovenaar van Oz van L. Frank Baum, dat mij werd voorgelezen toen ik ongeveer drie was.

Nov 7, 2024 | newyorker.com | Jia Tolentino |George Saunders |Kelefa Sanneh |Lorrie Moore

The gender war, as pitched by politicians, revolves around two competing visions of a woman’s life. The Trumpists believe that the left wants women to be Plan B-gobbling dilettantes in their youth; dick-stomping corporate drones in early adulthood; lonely, angry spinsters who approach forty in a mania for egg-freezing or emasculation.

Nov 7, 2024 | newyorker.com | Lorrie Moore

I voted at a Quaker meetinghouse in a swing state on Tuesday, Election Day. A poster in the window read “WAR IS NOT HEALTHY FOR CHILDREN AND OTHER LIVING THINGS,” but I would have had to reject the ballot’s main items and write in Bernie Sanders or vote for Cornel West if I wanted to support the candidate who was the best embodiment of this sentiment. The poster was not considered politicking, I guess.