Memoir
What to Read this Summer, Part 1.
Book critic Maureen Corrigan gives her recommendations for books to read this summer.
Books for Holiday Gift Buying.
Book critic Maureen Corrigan give us her list of the best books to put on your Christmas list:
Two British comic novels:
"The Country Life" by Rachel Cusk
"Headlong" by Michael Frayn
The novels:
"Waiting" by Ha Jin
"Amy and Isabelle" by Elizabeth Strout
Two short story collections:
"The Way People Run" by Christopher Tilghman
"The Best American Short Stories of the Century" edited by John Updike and Katrina Kenison
The mysteries:
Book Critic Maureen Corrigan
Book critic Maureen Corrigan comments on Vivian Gornick's recent admission (which she has since denied) that she had invented some scenes and conversations in her memoir.
Vivian Gornick and Maureen Corrigan
Writer Vivian Gornick responds to a commentary we broadcast last week by book critic Maureen Corrigan about Gornick's admission that she had invented some scenes and conversations in her acclaimed memoir. Book critic Maureen Corrigan responds to Vivian Gornick's comments.
After Harvey Hit, A Houston-Based Novelist Forged Floodwaters To Reach His Mother
Though Mat Johnson's home wasn't flooded in the recent hurricane, the roads around him were. He had to pass these roads to make sure his elderly mother got the care she needed.
An Encounter At A Passport Checkpoint Offers Respite From Depression's Grip
Commentator Haroon Moghul on a ridiculous incident that helped lift him out of a depression.