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The New Yorker Review: The Underground Railroad
“The Perilous Lure of the Underground Railroad”
Colson Whitehead Biography
Author’s Website. “Colson Whitehead was born in 1969, and was raised in Manhattan.”
The writer’s voice: A conversation with Elizabeth Strout
Palo Alto Online. “Pulitzer Prize winner to discuss her new book, ‘My Name is Lucy Barton’ at Kepler’s on Jan. 19”
LitLovers Discussion Questions – My Name is Lucy Barton
“consider these LitLovers talking points to help start a discussion for My Name Is Lucy Barton“
Author’s Website Discussion Questions – My Name is Lucy Barton
Ten discussion questions.
The Wall Street Journal Review: My Name is Lucy Barton
“‘Lonely was the first flavor I had tasted in my life and it was always there, hidden inside the crevices of my mouth, reminding me.'”
Los Angeles Review of Books: My Name is Lucy Barton
“MY NAME IS LUCY BARTON, the title proclaims: — a substantive declaration, factual, objective, and yet the narrator herself is tentative, retiring, self-effacing.”
The Washington Post Review: My Name is Lucy Barton
“‘There was a time, and it was many years ago now,’ Elizabeth Strout’s slim and spectacular new novel begins, ‘when I had to stay in a hospital for almost nine weeks.'”
The Globe and Mail Review: My Name is Lucy Barton
“Elizabeth Strout’s My Name Is Lucy Barton is an exploration of memory”
The Guardian Review: My Name is Lucy Barton
“An exploration of the love between mother and daughter is both affecting and wise”
The New York Times Review: My Name is Lucy Barton
“One of this nation’s most abiding myths is that social origins don’t matter.”
Elizabeth Strout Biography
Author’s Website. “Elizabeth Strout was born in Portland, Maine, and grew up in small towns in Maine and New Hampshire.”
An interview with Olga Grushin
Book Browse, interview. “In this wide ranging and not to be missed interview Olga Grushin discusses her novel Forty Rooms.”
LitLovers Discussion Questions – Forty Rooms
Eight discussion questions.
The Chicago Tribune Review: Forty Rooms
“Olga Grushin’s ‘Forty Rooms’ pits positive thinking against hard truth”
The Washington Post Review: Forty Rooms
“‘Forty Rooms’ asks: Can a woman be an artist and happy?”
The New York Times Review: Forty Rooms
“The structure of Olga Grushin’s original new novel, ‘Forty Rooms,’ is ingeniously simple.”
Olga Grushin Biography
Penguin Random House. “Olga Grushin was born in Moscow and moved to the United States at eighteen.”
Trevor Noah Says He Grew Up ‘In The Shadow Of A Giant’ (His Mom)
NPR. 12 minute listen and complete transcript. “The host of the Emmy-nominated Daily Show revisits his childhood in apartheid-era South Africa in the memoir, Born a Crime.”
Powell’s Q&A: Trevor Noah, Author of Born a Crime
Powell’s Books, interview. “Trevor Noah is the host of the Emmy and Peabody Award–winning The Daily Show.”
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