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Tag Archives: Lionel Shriver
Authors debate the female question
In the wake of Franzenfreude and the literary prize season, everyone seems to be talking about what it means to be a female novelist. This week, two British papers posed the question to two novelists—Lionel Shriver and Curtis Sittenfeld—and got … Continue reading
What we’re reading Wednesday: ‘Game Control’
Game Control by Lionel Shriver HarperPerennial • $13.95 • July 3, 2007 (originally published 1994) Getting through Lionel Shriver’s backlist is taking more time than it normally does when I discover an author I like (I picked up Kevin, my first Shriver, in … Continue reading
Lionel Shriver to take on immigration next?
If you thought Lionel Shriver couldn’t come up with a more provocative topic than health care to use as inspiration for fiction, think again—the author is planning to frame her next book around the issue of immigration. In a March … Continue reading
Best of the blogs
What book blog posts have you enjoyed this week? Read on for a few of my top picks. We Need to Talk About Kevin – Lionel Shriver Posted by You’ve GOTTA read this! I’ve had Lionel Shriver on the brain … Continue reading
Movie on the way for ‘Kevin’
Today, Kevin at The Millions made a strong case for Lionel Shriver as America’s best living novelist. The thoughtful post is worth a read, but the standout for me as a Shriver convert already was a throwaway mention of a … Continue reading
Who’s your literary hero?
At the Guardian, they’re running an interesting series of brief essays by writers about “the writers who inspired them.” Though some of the writers veer off course to describe artists (Margaret Drabble, for example, chooses Van Gogh—and John Banville shares … Continue reading
From a tween pickpocket to a health care drama
There’s a lot of fresh content available on BookPage.com this week. Below, we offer a teaser: first lines from new reviews and features you won’t want to miss. Click the book titles to read more. (Don’t get mad at us … Continue reading
What we're reading Wednesday
So Much for That by Lionel Shriver Harper, March 2010 Can a novel with a message about the state of American health care be entertaining? Yes, if it’s written by Lionel Shriver. So Much for That follows Shep and Glynis … Continue reading
'So Much for That' excitement
One of the best things about working at a book review is being one of the first to know when a favorite author has a new book on the horizon. Today brought that pleasure for me—Lionel Shriver has a March … Continue reading
