And 'Referential' is 'after VN' which I take is Nabokov - which story, I am unsure, but there seems to be an 'intertextual exercise' motif here.
― the pinefox, Friday, 25 July 2014 18:32 (nine years ago) link
remembered what I was going to say about 'Wings' -
I didn't really get - or believe! - the motivation esp of the central woman, right up to her final dealings with the house
although I realize that 'the mystery of motivation', 'the ambiguity of people's desires' is the Jamesian schtick she is referring to.
― the pinefox, Friday, 25 July 2014 18:34 (nine years ago) link
I've only just seen this 2009 review of LM, by a notable writer on climate breakdown. Well informed and worthwhile I think.
https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/lives-lorrie-moore/
― the pinefox, Friday, 11 November 2022 09:41 (one year ago) link
“I feel like I’ve got five years to live,” says Agnes, in “Agnes of Iowa,” having made a brief go of things in New York. “So I’m moving back to Iowa so that it’ll feel like fifty.”
That is so good.