Lorrie Moore

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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

eight years pass...

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.

the pinefox, Friday, 11 November 2022 09:41 (one year ago) link


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