Maureen Corrigan appears in the following:
'Thief' Delivers An Unfiltered Depiction Of Life In Lagos
Tuesday, March 25, 2014
What U.S. Learned From 'Heathen School' Wasn't Part Of The Lesson Plan
Tuesday, March 18, 2014
'Schmuck' Revisits The Golden Age Of Radio, And A Bygone Manhattan
Wednesday, March 05, 2014
These Stories Consider Solitude, With Echoes Of Emily Dickinson
Wednesday, February 26, 2014
Don't Know What To Do With Your Life? Neither Did Thoreau
Monday, February 17, 2014
Triumph Of The Bookworms: Two Novels To Cure Your Winter Blues
Wednesday, February 05, 2014
Midwestern Memoir Tracks 'Flyover Lives' Of Author's Forebears
Friday, January 31, 2014
On This Spanish Slave Ship, Nothing Was As It Seemed
Monday, January 27, 2014
Empty Nester In 'The Woods': A Modern Dantean Journey
Thursday, January 09, 2014
A Critic Tours 'Echo Spring,' Home Of Beloved Boozy Writers
Friday, January 03, 2014
Need A Read? Here Are Maureen Corrigan's Favorite Books Of 2013
Wednesday, December 11, 2013
Thanksgivukkah Stress Getting You Down? Here's A Literary Escape Plan
Tuesday, November 26, 2013
Mark your calendars: According to some scholars, the next time it might happen is the year 79,811. I'm talking, of course, about the hybrid holiday of Thanksgivukkah, a melding of Thanksgiving and the Jewish Festival of Lights. The Borsch Belt-style Pilgrim jokes and mishmash recipes (turkey brined in Manischewitz, anyone?) ...
'Self-Help Messiah' Dale Carnegie Gets A Second Life In Print
Thursday, November 07, 2013
"Make the other person feel important." "Let the other fellow feel that the idea is his." "Make people like you." Those are some of the peppy commands that have sent generations of Americans out into the world, determined to win friends and influence people — oh, and make big bucks.
...Dickensian Ambition And Emotion Make 'Goldfinch' Worth The Wait
Thursday, October 31, 2013
"Dickensian" is one of those literary modifiers that's overused. But before I officially retire this ruined adjective (or exile it to Australia, as Dickens himself would have done), I want to give it one final outing, because no other word will do. Here goes: Donna Tartt's grand new novel, The ...
If You're Looking To Read 'Lady Things,' Choose Jezebel Over Jones
Monday, October 21, 2013
From McDermott, An Extraordinary Story Of An Ordinary 'Someone'
Wednesday, September 04, 2013
Endurance, going the distance, sucking up the solitude and the brine: I'm not talking about the glorious Diana Nyad and her instantly historic swim from Cuba to Key West, but of the ordinary heroine whose life is the subject of Alice McDermott's latest novel, Someone. "Ordinary" is a word that's ...
A Gossipy, Nostalgic History Of A Publishing 'Hothouse'
Thursday, August 15, 2013
In the world of book publishing, ravaged though it may be, the name Farrar, Straus & Giroux still bespeaks literary quality. It's a publishing house that boasts a roll call of 25 Nobel Prize winners and heavyweights like Susan Sontag, Carlos Fuentes, Joan Didion, Philip Roth and Jonathan Franzen. A ...
'Love Affairs' Of A Hip, Young Literary Hound Dog
Tuesday, August 06, 2013
Before I read Adelle Waldman's brilliant debut novel, The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P., I had about as much interest in reading about the hip, young literary types who've colonized Brooklyn as I do in watching Duck Dynasty, that reality show about a family of bearded Luddites who live in ...
With 'Arrangements' And 'The Rest,' Two Debut Novelists Arrive
Tuesday, July 30, 2013
The novel I've been recommending this summer to anyone, female or male, who's looking for the trifecta — a good story that's beautifully written and both hilarious and humane — is Seating Arrangements, Maggie Shipstead's debut novel from last summer. I was about to go all old-school and excitedly add ...
The Only Surprise In Rowling's 'Cuckoo's Calling' Is The Author
Thursday, July 18, 2013
Call it "The Mystery of the Missing Book Sales" — and I don't think we'll be needing to bring Sherlock Holmes in to solve this one. In April, a debut mystery called The Cuckoo's Calling was published. It appeared to be written by an unknown British writer named Robert Galbraith, ...