Saturday, May 30, 2009
Matthew and Marilynne
Matthew Parris climbs on board the careering bandwagon of my Brown gone in June forecast. But who cares when there's this? Marilynne being in the running for the Orange Prize is rather like Ian Bostridge putting his name down for Britain's Got Talent, but still...
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A blog about, among other things, imaginary ideas - What ifs? and Imagine thats. What if photographs looked nothing like what we see with our eyes? Imagine that the Berlin Wall had never come down. What if we were the punchline of an interminable joke? All contributions welcome.
I'm going to get this woman out of the library because you were right about J.A. Baker. But the synopses look terrible.
ReplyDeleteIn the Baltimore Sun, Marilynne Robinson "describes how [Edgar Allan Poe] inspired her to think about the written word . . . ."
ReplyDeleteIan: "Housekeeping" is one of the best novels I've ever read. I refuse to say much about the others for fear of annoying the Number One Fan of M.R. who happens to be the proprietor of this blog!
ReplyDeleteAlso, I am confused...I thought the Orange Prize only went to women writers from England, Australia, Canada, etc. -- didn't know American writers were ever in the running.
thanks, Susan.
ReplyDeletei wish to read all..
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