The Unfortunate Importance of Beauty is a farcical fictional meditation on female beauty structured as a mash-up of an old episode of Friends, a fairy tale and a murder mystery. — Maureen Corrigan Copy Share Image
Flawless . . . Tightly choreographed . . . Shipstead gains entry into exclusive worlds and trains her opera glasses on private social rituals, as well as behind-the-scenes hanky panky . . . Similar to classic ballet, the power of Astonish Me arises out of the pairing of a melodramatic storyline with scrupulously executed range of movement . . .… — Maureen Corrigan Copy Share
In our daily lives, where we're bombarded by the fake and the trivial, reading serves as a way to stop, shut out the noise… — Maureen Corrigan Copy Share Image
I think, consciously or not, what we readers do each time we open a book is to set off a search for authenticity. We… — Maureen Corrigan Copy Share Image
We read literature for a lot of reasons, but two of the most compelling ones are to get out of ourselves and our life… — Maureen Corrigan Copy Share Image
The Unfortunate Importance of Beauty is a farcical fictional meditation on female beauty structured as a mash-up of an old episode of Friends, a… — Maureen Corrigan Copy Share Image
“knocking back the wine and reaching for the cheap consolations of kimchee-scented Kleenex fiction” — Maureen Corrigan Copy Share Image
Reality TV, blogging and self-publishing are all evidence of a society's or culture's desire to be more public. And that's a sign of a… — Maureen Corrigan Copy Share Image
A hilarious academic novel that'll send you laughing (albeit ruefully) back into the trenches of the classroom. . . . [A] mordant minor masterpiece.… — Maureen Corrigan Copy Share Image
Whatever (its) virtues, (the) writing explores the culture of work but marginalizes work itself. — Maureen Corrigan Copy Share Image
All of the disparate books on my list contain characters, scenes or voices that linger long past the last page of their stories. — Maureen Corrigan Copy Share Image
Prolonged travel in the alternate world of books can also make a reader more prone to fantasy thinking and estranged from his or her… — Maureen Corrigan Copy Share Image
It’s Fitzgerald’s thin-but-durable urge to affirm that finally makes Gatsby worthy of being our Great American Novel. Its soaring conclusion tells us that, even… — Maureen Corrigan Copy Share Image
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