Maureen Corrigan Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Maureen Corrigan

... when a novel is powerful enough, it transports us readers deep into worlds not our own. That's true of Moby Dick, and it's certainly true of [this book], which renders the process of designing a great video game as enthralling as the pursuit of that great white whale.

Maureen Corrigan

As ingenious as Harper's plot is, it's also the cynical lyricism of the language of Everybody Knows that kept me transfixed; reading it is like watching Sunset Boulevard for the first time. Harper's descriptions of the weird, performative aspects of LA are especially sharp.

Maureen Corrigan

Whybrow was an editor earlier in her life... but for the last 20 years...has been raising Icelandic sheep...This is not my world. But boy, does she take me as a reader out there into the meadow with her and make me feel how everything is interconnected in that meadow.

Maureen Corrigan

RT @wherewelive: F. Scott Fitzgerald’s THE GREAT GATSBY has dazzled readers for nearly a century. 96 years after its publication, the book…

Maureen Corrigan

It’s about a young man, a successful financier, who returns to his hometown in Virginia, where his father has been the victim of a mysterious hit and run. This young man has to figure out how to save the family business… from the clutches of a mob that now controls the town.

Maureen Corrigan

It’s about a dog named Crispin’s Crispian, and he’s named that because he owns himself. He belongs to himself. And it does what great children’s books, what great books period, do. It takes you into a world you would never have imagined, and you just wanna stay there.

Maureen Corrigan

A fantastic true story about a young couple in the 1970s in England… They want to build a boat, chuck everything and live at sea… Everything is terrific until about a year into the voyage, they’re in the middle of the Pacific and they encounter a whale who breaches the boat.

Maureen Corrigan

This book is set in Detroit, which is Abbott’s hometown...Early 2000s Detroit is down on its luck. A bunch of women get together and join a finance club and they spout all these slogans about female empowerment and yet this club also turns out to be a Ponzi scheme.

Maureen Corrigan

The only "beauty" to be found [in the book] is in the vividness of Moshfegh's language and the cleverness of her plot, which is an elaborate snicker at the gullibility of anyone who thinks ancestry can be reliably traced through birth records.

Maureen Corrigan

I think Karen Russell is one of our greatest living American writers. Nobody captures the old weird America like she does. This one is set in the Dust Bowl in Nebraska.