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'Being a woman is dangerous business' in Jane Smiley's witty Wild West murder mystery
USA TODAY via Yahoo News· 2 years agoJane Smiley paints such vivid imagery with her language that it’s easy for her novels to conjure...
'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...
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...
In Jane Smiley's rock 'n' roll novel, does good sense make good fiction?
Los Angeles Times Opinion via Yahoo News· 2 months 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 ...
Cormac McCarthy's brilliant 'Stella Maris,' new Jane Smiley: 5 must-read books this week
USA TODAY via Yahoo News· 2 years agoIn search of something good to read? USA TODAY's Barbara VanDenburgh scopes out the shelves for this...
Jane Smiley's latest? A Gold Rush-era California sex worker mystery
LA Times via Yahoo News· 2 years agoEliza was free. Dragged west to Gold Rush California from Michigan by her bully of a husband, liberated by a bullet that turned her into a widow, she considered her future in the windswept port ...
Hoof Beats: Books for horse lovers
The Pueblo Chieftain via Yahoo News· 2 months 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,...
Raja Shehadeh, Yiyun Li and Maria Bamford among L.A. Times Book Prize finalists
LA Times via Yahoo News· 4 months agoL.A. Times Book Prize finalists Raja Shehadeh, from left, Yiyun Li and Maria Bamford. (Simone...
17 Books to Read If You Already Miss Succession
Town & Country via AOL· 1 year ago17 Books to Read If You Love SuccessionProduct Shot Image The last-ever episode of Succession aired over the weekend, so what to do now? While you can...
Iowans expect to take road trips across the state this summer. Here's what's new.
The Des Moines Register via Yahoo News· 2 years agoSummer 2022 arrived amid record inflation, soaring fuel prices and lingering coronavirus outbreaks....
