Rosalind S. Brown

Sep 23, 2024 | harpers.org | Rosalind S. Brown

Try, start here, try bringing a pot of coffee out into the sun in despite of the hot weather, and sit at your chair and table ready for all possible assimilations. Include with the coffee something slightly intensely sweet: not slightly sweet but slightly intensely, since all intensities only need to be slight at this point.

Sep 4, 2024 | christiancentury.org | Rosalind S. Brown |Philip Jenkins |Jack Jenkins |Amy Frykholm

In a famous essay about retiring to his family’s estate in hopes of writing, Michel de Montaigne compares his mind to a runaway horse: “Determined to devote myself as far as I could to spending what little life I have left quietly and privately; it seemed to me then that the greatest favour I could do for my mind was to leave it in total idleness, caring for itself, concerned only with itself, calmly thinking of itself.” But instead of the calm that he sought, Montaigne found that his mind...

Jun 30, 2024 | deal.town | Rosalind S. Brown

This week, we’ve unlocked an interview from the archive selected by Rosalind Brown, whose story “A Narrow Room” appears in issue no. 245 of the Review (Fall 2023). A. S. Byatt’s fiction leaves me both exhilarated and intimidated: a feeling of God I wish I could do this, and No I will never be able to do this, and a kind of synthesis feeling of Well then, thank goodness someone could. In her 2001 Paris Review interview, she gives the impression of having thought about absolutely everything.

Jun 28, 2024 | newinbooks.com | J.T. Tierney |Cathy Lamb |Rosalind S. Brown |Clare Sestanovich

in Books to Read if You Like..., eBook, Literary Fiction, News 6 Richly Woven Stories of Tenacity and LoveStep into a world of tenacity and love with our selection of six new literary fiction novels. Each richly woven story promises depth, emotion, and unforgettable characters. Join us as we delve into these compelling narratives that celebrate the resilience of the human spirit.

Jun 22, 2024 | entertainment-mag.com | Rosalind S. Brown

Brown’s debut is exquisitely attuned to the thrill and boredom of academic reading: “The sonnets yawn and congeal, or rather she does. They are strenuous, they agonize.” Annabel has read some of the great interpreters of these poems — Helen Vendler, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, William Empson — but today she is alone, annotating her printouts (2009, remember), ruminating about their moody, peremptory speaker and the love triangle he has sublimed into the timeless, indelible word.