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After great pain
Goldengrove Goldengrove Francine Prose HarperCollins, $24.95, 288 pp. On a placid New England lake, teenage sisters--"two Cleopatras in our...
Commonweal, 02/27/09 by Valerie Sayers · More from publication -
Author revisits people and places in collection of stories
By Valerie Sayers
The Washington Post
It has been 25 years since Louise Erdrich published the first of her vibrant novels...
The Virginian-Pilot and The Ledger-Star, Norfolk, VA, 02/01/09 by VALERIE SAYERS · More from publication -
The object of my preposition
In memory of Ken Saro-Wiwa In memory of Ken Saro-Wiwa HE WAS A SHORT MAN, five-two or so, no taller than I am. Straightaway I mistrusted him....
Witness, 01/01/09 by Valerie Sayers · More from publication -
CONSOLING REFLECTIONS FROM LONGTIME CHARMER
By Valerie Sayers
The Washington Post
Maya Angelou published her blockbuster memoir, "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings,"...
The Virginian-Pilot and The Ledger-Star, Norfolk, VA, 11/09/08 by VALERIE SAYERS · More from publication -
... and found In dredging up memories of his less-than-perfect
By Valerie Sayers
Washington Post News Service
Rick Bragg has now written three family histories, all dredging up bitter...
The Virginian-Pilot and The Ledger-Star, Norfolk, VA, 08/10/08 by VALERIE SAYERS · More from publication -
False start
Run Run Ann Patchett HarperCollins, $25.95, 304 pp. Ann Patchett's new novel opens with a wryly romantic vision of motherhood. Bernadette...
Commonweal, 01/31/08 by Valerie Sayers · More from publication -
The chosen frozen
The Yiddish Policemen's Union The Yiddish Policemen's Union Michael Chabon HarperCollins, $26.95, 432 pp. Michael Chabon is an all-out,...
Commonweal, 09/28/07 by Valerie Sayers · More from publication -
A noisy soul: Roberto Bolano's defiant fiction
Roberto Bolano, the Chilean expatriate poet, novelist, and literary prankster who died in 2003, has inserted himself into the world's literary...
Commonweal, 07/13/07 by Valerie Sayers · More from publication -
Vision Quest
Every Eye Every Eye Isobel English Boston: Black Sparrow/David R. Godine, $23.95, 152 pp. Isobel English (1920-94) had a brief but...
Commonweal, 11/17/06 by Valerie Sayers · More from publication -
Flyover Country
Waterloo Waterloo Karen Olsson Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $24, 305 pp. Mission to America Walter Kirn Doubleday, $23.95, 271 pp. The...
Commonweal, 02/24/06 by Valerie Sayers · More from publication
