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Biography

Name: Marie Lorena Moore
Variant Name: Lorrie Moore
Birth Date: January 13, 1957
Nationality: American
Gender: Female

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Biography of Marie Lorena Moore
6,395 words, approx. 21 pages
Lorrie Moore's artful short fiction plays upon hauntingly familiar pangs in its depiction of the pitfalls of modern existence. Throughout, a darkly witty sense of humor pervades the often desperate lives of her characters. Much of the criticism of...


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Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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Lorrie Moore Information
429 words, approx. 1 pages
Lorrie Moore (born Marie Lorena Moore on January 13, 1957 in Glens Falls, New York) is an American fiction writer known mainly for her humorous and poignant short...


News and Journals
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Publishers Weekly
Lorrie Moore: Flipping Death the Bird.(author)
08/24/1998: 2,053 words, approx. 7 pages
The background and works of author Lorrie Moore are detailed. Moore's literary success began with the publication of a work originally written as her graduate thesis. However impressed with the sudden popularity of her fiction, Moore insists on the importance of hard work. ...
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Twentieth Century Literature
Jokes, fiction, and Lorrie Moore.(Critical essay)
03/22/2006: 8,047 words, approx. 27 pages
The opening sentences of Lorrie Moore's "You're Ugly, Too" present a superbly comic picture of the contemporary intellectual faced with the arid, earnest culture of middle America: You had to get out of them occasionally, those Illinois towns with the funny...
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The New York Observer
I Loved Your Book: The Strange Desire To Praise the Talented
1/15/2006: 1,318 words, approx. 4 pages
Not long ago, some friends and I wandered into a Friday-night art opening in Chelsea for the actor—and apparently the painter—Martin Mull. Like everyone else, we drifted from painting to painting while pretending not to steal glances at Mr. Mull, swirling a glass, off to...
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The New York Observer
I Loved Your Book: The Strange Desire To Praise the Talented
1/15/2006: 1,317 words, approx. 4 pages
Not long ago, some friends and I wandered into a Friday-night art opening in Chelsea for the actor—and apparently the painter—Martin Mull. Like everyone else, we drifted from painting to painting while pretending not to steal glances at Mr. Mull, swirling a glass, off to...
 


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Interview by Lorrie Moore and Elizabeth Gaffney
8,257 words, approx. 28 pages
In the following interview, Moore discusses her formative experiences and literary influences, her approach to writing, the characters and themes in her writing, and the conflicting demands of writing, parenting, and working.
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Critical Essay by James Phelan
7,884 words, approx. 26 pages
In the following essay, Phelan discusses theoretical aspects of second-person narration, derived from narratological and rhetorical analysis, and the application of second-person narration in Moore's short stories in Self-Help.
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Critical Essay by Vince Passaro
3,652 words, approx. 12 pages
In the following excerpt, Passaro discusses the development of twentieth-century American short fiction, particularly as defined by the terse realism of Hemingway, and praises the work of talented younger writers, including Moore, whose sophisticated, experimental stories are leading a revitalization of the genre.
 


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