In the following interview, Brown shares her views on the politics of feminism and discusses her poems in Cora Fry.
[Hammond]: From an essay that Erica Jong wrote on Some Deaths in the Delta, I und...
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In the following excerpt, Glastonbury provides an overwhelmingly positive assessment of Civil Wars.
The British edition of Civil Wars, Rosellen Brown's third novel, has arrived peppered with...
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In the following review, Walzer applauds Civil Wars's highlighting of disaffected civil rights “warriors” in modern, more complacent times. Walzer believes that Brown effectively ...
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In the following review, Simon compliments Brown's adeptness with description and characterization in Civil Wars, but argues that the subplots occasionally clash with the main story line.
Wh...
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In the following essay, Wolk examines the emotional and behavioral dynamics of the mother-daughter relationship in Brown's The Autobiography of My Mother, using Nancy Chodorow's study Th...
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In the following review, Bader praises the creation and blending of the characters who occupy George Street, a fictional neighborhood in Street Games.
George Street, the scene of Rosellen Brown�...
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In the following review, St. Andrews applauds the selection of short stories, essays, and poems that comprise A Rosellen Brown Reader.
Only a few volumes dedicated to the works of individual artist...
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In the following review, Johnston praises the subject matter and execution of storyline in Before and After.
Like a renegade comet, near-shattering violence careens into the lives of the ordinary p...
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In the following interview, Brown discusses the thematic focus of and reasons behind her writing Before and After.
“Before I answer your challenging questions,” writes Ms. Brown, ...
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In the following review, Eder argues that Before and After is a compelling story, but believes that Brown fails to adequately develop the majority of her characters.
A fortunate family, the Reisers...
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In the following review, Birkerts praises the premise of Before and After, but believes the characters lack depth and dimension and that Brown doesn't follow up on some of the novel's th...
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In the following excerpt, Bell asserts that the conclusion of Before and After leaves too many loose ends unresolved.
A brutal murder is also at the heart of Rosellen Brown's Before and Afte...
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In the following review of Before and After, Armstrong examines the degrees of alienation the main characters feel toward each other and toward their small-town community.
Before and After is a cri...
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In the following review, Ratner offers mixed assessments of A Rosellen Brown Reader and Before and After.
Call it modernist, postmodern, experimental, or whatever you want. It seems as if fiction w...
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In the following interview, Brown discusses her current writing projects, the pros and cons of writing a best-seller, and politics in her writing.
[Interviewer]: Can you tell us about your backgrou...
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In the following review, Parson-Nesbitt assesses the strengths of the poetry in Cora Fry's Pillow Book.
Novelist and poet Rosellen Brown refuses to allow her characters less than their diffi...
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In the following essay, Wolk analyzes the effects that “speaking out” have on the female protagonists in Brown's novels.
For all the wise humor, the rich ironies, and the confi...
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In the following review, Haskell asserts that the racial situations in Half a Heart are at times unbelievable and the characters are occasionally unsympathetic, but notes that Brown's most effe...
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In the following review, Brzezinski compliments Brown's characterization and the situations that the protagonists must endure in Half a Heart.
Brown, the distinguished author of Tender Merci...
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Interview by Rosellen Brown and Karla Hammond
