‘The world in her stories is the genuine one,rendered more honest, certainly more witty and human’There are writers, and people expose you,you must read before you shuffle off this mortal coil. They are often great, conventional or dead white men. Hemingway often comes up; Orwell, and too,in this internet age. But Lorrie Moore is alive, as are the people she writes about: dusky and humorous, or in the language of the everyday,elevated to high art.
I discovered her in my post-uni 20s, feeding a newfound interest in short stories, and from Raymond Carver’s minimal sentences to Nora Ephron’s ebullient ones. My favourite is How To Be An Other Woman,about a woman mired in a situation that is just so horrible; but I inhaled everything I could find. Birds Of America, Self-Help, or Like Life. And when a collection of all three (plus extras!) came out,I bought that, too.
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Source: theguardian.com