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For novelist and journalist Anna Quindlen, "real life is in the dishes," as she told Sybil Steinberg in a Publishers Weekly interview. Her columns for the New York Times, collected in Living Out Loud ...
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During the last decades of the twentieth century, Anna Quindlen emerged as an important novelist. Her works address a variety of topics, ranging from the maturation of a girl in a large Irish Italian ...
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In the following interview, Quindlen discusses women in the workplace, child care, and her future plans.
Early in her third pregnancy, Anna Quindlen, the syndicated columnist, made an important decisi...
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In the following review, Woodward argues that Quindlen does not provide facts to support her assertions in the columns collected in Thinking Out Loud.
The eighty-seven pieces collected [in Thinking Ou...
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In the following essay, Steinfels discusses Quindlen's relationship with the Catholic Church and Commonweal's coverage of her disagreements with the Church.
Two years ago, Commonweal pub...
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In the following review, Bowman provides a scathing review of Quindlen's last column in the New York Times.
She disappeared in the dead of winter. Just when we needed her most, she was gone. In...
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In the following review, Fenichel asserts that Quindlen's personal essays about being female work more effectively than her political ones in Living Out Loud.
While reading Living Out Loud, I c...
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In the following review, Risedorph provides a favorable assessment of Siblings, Quindlen's collaboration with photographer Nick Kelsh.
Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Anna Quindlen and renowned p...
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In the following review, the critic argues that Quindlen's Blessings offers convincing dialogue, strong characterization, and a dramatic plot.
Venturing into fictional territory far from the bl...
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In the following review, the critic provides a lukewarm assessment of Quindlen's Blessings.
[Blessings is the] fourth adult novel from Newsweek columnist Quindlen (Black and Blue, 1998, etc.), ...
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In the following review, Harris offers a positive assessment of Blessings.
A teenager drives his girlfriend one night to a rich widow's estate outside a small New England town. They leave a box...
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In the following review, McMichael lauds Quindlen's realistic dialogue and characterization and her portrayal of emotion in Blessings.
The timeworn admonition to “count your blessings&#x...
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In the following review, Seaman offers a positive assessment of Loud and Clear.
In her first retrospective essay collection since Thinking Out Loud (1993), best-selling author and Pulitzer Prize-winni...
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In the following interview, Quindlen discusses her career and her first novel, Object Lessons.
To reach Anna Quindlen's office at the New York Times one walks down a corridor past doors identif...
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In the following review, the critic offers a mixed assessment of Loud and Clear.
Light, appealing, and devoid of nutritional value, [Loud and Clear,] this selection of New York Times and Newsweek essa...
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In the following review, McDaniel praises Quindlen for her portrayal of adolescence and loss and for vivid characterization in Object Lessons.
Adolescence is widely held these days to be a traumatic e...
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In the following review, See concludes that while much of Quindlen's Object Lessons is contrived, Quindlen exhibits a willingness to create horrible female characters.
In the suburban town of K...
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In the following review, Lehrman notes the limitations on Quindlen's brand of writing, both in her novel Object Lessons and in her columns.
For nearly three years devoted readers turned weekly ...
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In the following excerpt, Grossman lauds the authenticity of place in Quindlen's Object Lessons but criticizes the author's tendency to put everything in order at the end of the novel.
T...
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In the following interview, Quindlen discusses the role of a columnist, the relationship between her life and her work, and her relationship with the Catholic Church.
[Santora]: Where did you grow up?...
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In the following essay, Eastland delineates the flaws in Quindlen's column writing.
Now that Anna Quindlen of the New York Times has won herself a Pulitzer Prize for commentary, there's ...
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Anna Quindlen
Anna Quindlen
Interview by Anna Quindlen and Marilyn Gardner
