Title:
See what can be done : essays, criticism, and commentary
Author:
Moore, Lorrie, author.
ISBN:
9781524732486
Personal Author:
Edition:
First edition.
Publication Information:
New York :
Alfred A. Knopf,
2018.
Physical Description:
xix, 407 pages ; 25 cm
General Note:
"This is a Borzoi book."
Contents:
Nora Ephron's Heartburn (1983) -- Kurt Vonnegut's Galápagos (1985) -- Malcolm Bradbury's Cuts (1987) -- Anaïs Nin, Marilyn Monroe (1987) -- John Cheever (1988) -- Bobbie Ann Mason's Love Life (1989) -- V.S. Pritchett's A Careless Widow (1989) -- Stanley Elkin's The MacGuffin (1991) -- Don DeLillo's Mao II (1991) -- Election Day 1992: Voters in Wonderland (1992) -- Charles Baxter's Shadow Play (1993) -- Margaret Atwood's The Robber Bride (1993) -- On Writing (1994) -- Amos Oz (1996) -- Christmas for Everyone (1997) -- Starr-Clinton-Lewinsky (1998) -- Ann Beattie's New and Selected Stories (1998) -- JonBenét Ramsey by Lawrence Schiller (1999) -- Joyce Carol Oates's Broke Heart Blues (1999) -- Dawn Powell (1999) -- Best Love Song of the Millennium (1999) -- Titanic (2000) -- Claudia Roth Pierpont's Passionate Minds (2000) -- Philip Roth's The Human Stain (2000) -- Matthew Klam's Sam the Cat (2000) -- Legal Aide: My First Job (2001) -- Frederic Cassidy (2001) -- Alice Munro's Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage (2002) -- Edna St. Vincent Millay (2002) -- Darryl Pinckney and Caryl Phillips (2002) -- Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake (2003) -- John Updike's The Early Stories (2003) -- Nicholson Baker's Checkpoint (2004) -- Alice Munro's Runaway (2004) -- Joan Silber (2005) -- Eudora Welty (2006) -- Alice Munro's The Moons of Jupiter (2006) -- Shakespeare: The Modern Elizabethan (2006) -- One Hot Summer, or a Brief History of Time (2006) -- Stephen Sondheim's Sweeney Todd (2007) -- Peter Cameron (2007) -- Donald Barthelme (2009) -- Clarice Lispector (2009) -- Barack Obama (2009) -- The Wire (2010) -- Memoirs (2011) -- Friday Night Lights (2011) -- 9/11/11 (2011) -- GOP Primary Debate (2011) -- Werner Herzog's Into the Abyss (2011) -- Suzzy Roche's Wayward Saints (2012) -- Lena Dunham (2012) -- Wisconsin Recall (2012) -- Richard Ford's Canada (2012) -- Ethan Canin's "The Palace Thief" (2012) -- Homeland (2013) -- Jane Campion's Top of the Lake (2013) -- Blue Is the Warmest Color (2013) -- Bernard Malamud (2014) -- Miranda July (2014) -- True Detective (2015) -- Making a Murderer (2016) -- Helen Gurley Brown (2016) -- Ezra Edelman's O.J.: Made in America (2016) -- Thoughts on Hillary Clinton, December 2016 (2017) -- Stephen Stills (2017).
Abstract:
"...more than sixty prose pieces gathered together for the first time by one of America's most revered and admired novelists and short-story writers. Her articles, essays, and cultural commentary...have been parsing the political, artistic and media landscape for the last three decades" -- from front jacket flap.
Reading Level:
Adult Brodart.
