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 though Gatsby dies and the small and corrupt survive, his longing was nonetheless magnificent. — Maureen Corrigan Copy Share Image
Flawless . . . Tightly choreographed . . . Shipstead gains entry into exclusive worlds and trains her opera glasses on private social rituals,… — Maureen Corrigan Copy Share Image
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
“It is probably the sturdy influence of the Catholic belief in a Big Plan that accounts for my own enduring faith that you find… — Maureen Corrigan Copy Share Image
It's not that I don't like people. It's just that when I'm in the company of others - even my nearest and dearest -… — Maureen Corrigan Copy Share Image
“We read literature for a number of reasons, but two of the most compelling ones are to get out of ourselves and our own… — Maureen Corrigan Copy Share Image
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