Lorrie Moore

‘America’s first lady of darkness and mirth.’ Guardian ‘The best American writer of her generation.’ Nick Hornby ‘Unmissable.’ Marie Claire From one of the most celebrated imaginations in American literature, Lorrie Moore’s new novel is a magic box of longing and surprise. High up in a New York City hospice, Finn sits with his beloved […]

Adrienne is living in a puritanical age, when the best compliment a childless woman can get is: ‘You’d make a terrific mother’. That’s when she goes to her friends’ Labor Day picnic and accidentally kills their baby. The shock of this scene is expertly packed into two brief paragraphs. What follows is Adrienne’s retreat from […]

When in 1999 I began writing for The New York Review of Books … my stance became that of the ingenuous Martian who had just landed on a gorgeous alien planet … Montaigne’s que sais-je. A little light, a little wonder, some skepticism, some awe, some squinting, some je ne sais quoi. Pick a thing […]