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See what can be done : essays, criticism, and commentary / Lorrie Moore.

by Moore, Lorrie.

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Alfred A. Knopf, 2018.

Literature, Modern -- History and criticism -- Essays.

Criticism -- Essays.

American essays -- 21st century.

Women authors, American -- 21st century -- Essays.

Women novelists, American -- 21st century -- Essays.

9780385691314 (hc., Bond Street Books Canadian ed.)

9781524732486 (hc., Knopf USA ed.)

xix, 407 pages ; 25 cm

"This is a Borzoi book."

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).

"More than fifty prose pieces by one of America's most revered and admired novelists and short-story writers, whose articles, essays, and cultural commentary - appearing in The New York Review of Books, The New York Times Book Review, The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The Guardian, Harper's Magazine, and elsewhere - have been parsing the political, artistic, and media idiom for the last three decades. From Lorrie Moore's earliest reviews of novels by Margaret Atwood and Nora Ephron, to an essay on Ezra Edelman's 2016 O.J. Simpson documentary, and in between: Moore on the writing of fiction (the work of V. S. Pritchett, Don DeLillo, Philip Roth, Joyce Carol Oates, Alice Munro, Stanley Elkin, Dawn Powell, Nicholson Baker, et al.), on the continuing unequal state of race in America, on the shock of the shocking GOP, on the dangers (and cruel truths) of celebrity marriages and love affairs . . . on the wilds of television (The Wire, Friday Night Lights, Into the Abyss, Girls, Homeland, True Detective, Making a Murderer) . . . on the (d)evolving environment, on terrorism, the historical imagination, and the world's newest form of novelist, on the lesser (and larger) lives of biography and the midwifery between art and life (Anaïs Nin, Marilyn Monroe, John Cheever, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Eudora Welty, Bernard Malamud, among others) and on the high art of being Helen Gurley Brown. Lorrie Moore is an American fiction writer known mainly for her humorous and poignant short stories. She is a professor of English at Vanderbilt University and she lives in Nashville, Tennessee"--Provided by publisher.

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