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'Being a woman is dangerous business' in Jane Smiley's witty Wild West murder mystery
USA TODAY via Yahoo News· 1 year agoJane Smiley paints such vivid imagery with her language that it’s easy for her novels to conjure...
Review: Smiley visits Wild West in ‘A Dangerous Business'
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 1 year agoAfter a fall publishing season filled with Big Books by John Irving, Cormac McCarthy and Barbara...
Jane Smiley hits again with 'Lucky' but what the what is that ending?
Star Tribune (Minneapolis) via Yahoo News· 1 month agoA copy of Jane Smiley's latest, "Lucky," sat in my lap — the last page read, the book closed. "Well, huh," I thought. "What the heck was that all about?" I knew what the heck the plot was about ...
Inspirational Quotes: John Cleese, Jane Smiley And Others
Investor's Business Daily· 6 months agoRead inspirational quotes about learning details about new topics, being an effective leader and...
Cormac McCarthy's brilliant 'Stella Maris,' new Jane Smiley: 5 must-read books this week
USA TODAY via Yahoo News· 1 year agoIn search of something good to read? USA TODAY's Barbara VanDenburgh scopes out the shelves for this...
In Jane Smiley's rock 'n' roll novel, does good sense make good fiction?
Los Angeles Times Opinion via Yahoo News· 1 month agoToward the end of Jane Smiley’s new novel, “Lucky,” its narrator takes a moment to flip through her mother’s record collection. It’s got a lot of ’60s folk-rock, including, she notes, “the four ...
Literate Matters: 'James' utilizes an American classic to amplify a long buried truth
Petoskey News Review via Yahoo News· 2 months agoIn a 1996 essay, Jane Smiley admonished readers to turn away from Huck Finn. One of her main...
Hoof Beats: Books for horse lovers
The Pueblo Chieftain via Yahoo News· 1 month agoOne of my favorite horse books comes from Jane Smiley, one of my favorite authors. After receiving the Pulitzer Prize for her novel A Thousand Acres,...
'A Thousand Acres' takes an acclaimed novel set in Iowa from an Iowa author to create a new opera
The Des Moines Register via Yahoo News· 2 years agoAs the show's director, Kristine McIntyre, observed, “It’s not every day a Pulitzer Prize-winning...
Geraldine Brooks' 6 favorite books for those who love horses
The Week via Yahoo News· 2 years agoGeraldine Brooks. Courtesy Image Geraldine Brooks is the Pulitzer-winning author of March and four...
