Books Quote by Maureen Corrigan

Flawless . . . Tightly choreographed . . . Shipstead gains entry into exclusive worlds and trains her opera glasses on private social rituals,…

— Maureen Corrigan

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

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

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

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

“knocking back the wine and reaching for the cheap consolations of kimchee-scented Kleenex fiction”

— Maureen Corrigan

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

A hilarious academic novel that'll send you laughing (albeit ruefully) back into the trenches of the classroom. . . . [A] mordant minor masterpiece.…

— Maureen Corrigan

Whatever (its) virtues, (the) writing explores the culture of work but marginalizes work itself.

— Maureen Corrigan

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

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

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