Cathleen Schine
Cathleen Schine
Cathleen Schineis an American author of several novels, including Rameau's Niece...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
CountryUnited States of America
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Alice Munro is not only revered, she is cherished, her stories handled lovingly, turned over and over, gazed at and studied and breathed in with something approaching awe. She has never, over the years, written the way any of her contemporaries have.
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Women are in positions of power the most radical of activists could only dream of in 1960.
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If you spend all your time reading books that you only pretend to understand, year after year, there isn't much room for anything else.
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I was one of those children they used to call 'readers.'
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I spend a lot, a lot, a lot of time on the Web.
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I grew up reading books about heroic collies.
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I do not go out to dinner or to the movies with the neighbors, as I do with my friends. I don't make dates with them. I don't have to.
'Blue Nights' is a story of loss: simple, wrenching, inconsolable loss.
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Anyone who has read a Trollope novel knows that women did not have to wait until 1960 to feel trapped.
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In my stunted career as a scholar, I'd read promissory notes, papal bulls and guidelines for Inquisitorial interrogation. Dante, too. Boccaccio... But after 1400? Nihil.
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In 'Pictures from an Institution,' Randall Jarrell was able to transcend the academic novel by simply ignoring it, writing a comedy with no plot at all beyond his own pleasure in language and humanity itself.
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I've been fortunate in that I never actually read any Jane Austen until I was thirty, thus sparing myself several decades of the unhappiness of having no new Jane Austen novels to read.
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Michael Chabon has long moved easily between the playful, heartfelt realism of novels like 'The Mysteries of Pittsburgh' and 'Wonder Boys' and his playful, heartfelt, more fantastical novels like 'The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay' and 'The Yiddish Policemen's Union.'
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Stewardesses were a joke to many of us coming of age in the liberated Sixties. They were no joke in the women's movement that liberated us, however.