by Lisa Peet
“There’s an essay in my book from one of the most unglamorous places in the world, Waterbury, Connecticut, but I love it. I think you can find wonder and mystery everywhere. I think you can experience newness anywhere.” Continue reading
Tag Archives: Edith Wharton
Q&A: Linda Legters
by Alice Schechter
Although the manuscript started with Celeste at her fan vent, as the story developed, the fear of loss was at the heart of it. I wanted to capture—and work through—a love that could be so intricately woven with dread. Continue reading
In Search of Isabel Bolton
by Alice Lowe
In his 1946 New Yorker review of Do I Wake or Sleep, Edmund Wilson, one of the most prominent critics of his day, called Isabel Bolton’s voice “exquisitely perfect in accent.” Continue reading
FIVE IN BLOOM: Lost and Found
by Juhi Singhal Karan
Books come and go out of fashion regularly, and literary tastes are as much subject to the tides of time as anything else. This month we feature five books that were thankfully rescued from oblivion and that found their way back to the reading public. Continue reading
Messing Up the Drawing Room: Wharton, Olsen, and the Quest for Validation
by Jessica Levine
In retrospect, I see the nine years I spent working on my Ph.D. as a similar kind of detour, a quest for a lineage that might give me a right to speak. Continue reading
Penelope Fitzgerald: Outrunning “Time’s Winged Chariot”
by Evelyn Somers
I read The Blue Flower out of sheer curiosity: I wanted to know how a writer who has waited that long to publish could be that good. Continue reading
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