Maureen Corrigan Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Maureen Corrigan

[The Poet's House] is a closely observed, droll, coming-of-age story about an insecure young woman drawn into a shimmering clique of poets; it's also a wise story about the corrosive power of shame and the primal fear of sounding stupid, unsophisticated and sentimental.

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

How could I resist a suspense novel in which a critic becomes an amateur detective in order to avoid becoming a murder suspect or even a victim? Soloski... [has] written a genuinely disturbing suspense tale that explores the theater of cruelty life can sometimes be.

Maureen Corrigan

RT @BookWorld: Christine Mangan, author of ‘Tangerine,’ sets her atmospheric new mystery novel "Palace of the Drowned" in a rain-soaked 196…

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

In her charged memoir, How to Say Babylon, Safiya Sinclair evokes her childhood in Jamaica and charts her gradual revolt against her strict Rastafarian upbringing.

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Maureen Corrigan

Anthony Doerr’s first novel since ‘All the Light We Cannot See.’ https://www.wsj.com/articles/cloud-cuckoo-land-anthony-doerr-review-slipping-the-trap-11632858500?st=0opdpznzdw8fyr8&reflink=desktopwebshare_twitter via @WSJ

Maureen Corrigan

Anthony Doerr’s first novel since ‘All the Light We Cannot See.’ https://www.wsj.com/articles/cloud-cuckoo-land-anthony-doerr-review-slipping-the-trap-11632858500?st=0opdpznzdw8fyr8&reflink=desktopwebshare_twitter via @WSJ

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.