Anyone who has read a Trollope novel knows that women did not have to wait until 1960 to feel trapped. — Cathleen Schine Copy Share Image
I've been fortunate in that I never actually read any Jane Austen until I was thirty, thus sparing myself several decades of… — Cathleen Schine Copy Share Image
In 'Pictures from an Institution,' Randall Jarrell was able to transcend the academic novel by simply ignoring it, writing a comedy with… — Cathleen Schine Copy Share Image
Alphabet Juice is the book Roy Blount was born to write, which considering his prodigious talent, is saying a lot. Did you… — Cathleen Schine Copy Share Image
I love my bed. It is larger than a desk and better designed to hold books and papers. It is softer than… — Cathleen Schine Copy Share Image
'Emma' is my favorite Jane Austen novel - one of my favorite novels period; a novel about intelligence outsmarting itself, about a… — Cathleen Schine Copy Share Image
“But Fin would always be a bit of a romantic, at least when it came to books.” — Cathleen Schine Copy Share Image
Michael Chabon has long moved easily between the playful, heartfelt realism of novels like 'The Mysteries of Pittsburgh' and 'Wonder Boys' and… — Cathleen Schine Copy Share Image
If you spend all your time reading books that you only pretend to understand, year after year, there isn't much room for… — Cathleen Schine Copy Share Image
Everyone who moves to New York City has a book or movie or song that epitomizes the place for them. For me,… — Cathleen Schine Copy Share Image
All these years I've had a story in my mind, the story about us that never really existed. And because of that story, I've… — Cathleen Schine Copy Share Image
Female Chauvinist Pigs is smart, alarming, and extremely funny. With nuance and humor, Levy has written both a convincing expos of sex and desire… — Cathleen Schine Copy Share Image
One of my favorite passages in 'Leaves of Grass,' that breathless, exuberant poem so rich and full of innocence and joy and generosity and… — Cathleen Schine Copy Share Image
In my stunted career as a scholar, I'd read promissory notes, papal bulls and guidelines for Inquisitorial interrogation. Dante, too. Boccaccio... But after 1400? Nihil. — Cathleen Schine Copy Share Image
Nathaniel Rich wrote 'Odds Against Tomorrow' well before Hurricane Sandy and its surge crashed onto the isle of Manhattan, well before the streets were… — Cathleen Schine Copy Share Image
I do all my shopping on the Web. I do much of my research online. I have a blog, too. It is definitely a… — Cathleen Schine Copy Share Image
“It was not that the woman boasted. Quite the opposite. She was modest to a fault, the fault being she insinuated her modesty, deftly,… — Cathleen Schine Copy Share Image
Alice Munro is not only revered, she is cherished, her stories handled lovingly, turned over and over, gazed at and studied and breathed in… — Cathleen Schine Copy Share Image
