'Netherland' Flirts With 'Gatsby's' Greatness **
Jul 2nd, 2008 · With plenty of nods to The Great Gatsby Joseph O'Neill's Netherland explores dreams and ambition in post-9/11 New York City. Maureen Corrigan calls the novel "marvelous."
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Maureen Corrigan's Summer Fiction Picks ****
May 19th, 2008 · Book critic Maureen Corrigan gives her summer fiction round-up: Lady of the Snakes by Rachel Pastan; The Sister by Poppy Adams; The People on Privilege Hill by Jane Gardam; and Exiles by Ron Hansen.
Exhuming a Real-Life British Murder Mystery *
May 7th, 2008 · In her new book, The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher: Murder and the Undoing of A Great Victorian Detective, Kate Summerscale revisits the gruesome 150-year-old murder that helped catapult British mystery fiction into being. Fresh Air book critic Maureen Corrigan offers a review.
Donna Foote, In the Urban-Education Trenches ****
Apr 21st, 2008 · Fresh Air book critic Maureen Corrigan reviews Relentless Pursuit: A Year in the Trenches With Teach for America, by Donna Foote.
Knowledge, and Danger, in Two New Novels *
Apr 8th, 2008 · Two new novels feature highly educated main characters who discover that too much knowledge is a dangerous thing. Maureen Corrigan reviews The Philosopher's Apprentice, by James Morrow, and The Soul Thief, by Charles Baxter.
Mailer Remembered as Controversial, Provocative ****
Nov 12th, 2007 · Norman Mailer's work combined sweeping cultural criticism, erudition and obscenity. He was deliberately provocative, says book critic Maureen Corrigan, and he wanted to be remembered as a novelist, though he made a strong impact as an essayist and journalist. Mailer's 60-year career was full of depth and controversy.
Maureen Corrigan's Love of Reading ****
Jan 19th, 2007 · Book critic Maureen Corrigan's memoir about her lifelong love of reading is Leave Me Alone, I'm Reading: Finding and Losing Myself in Books. This interview originally aired on Sep. 12, 2005.
Essay Collection Honors 'Howl' ****
Apr 20th, 2006 · Book critic Maureen Corrigan reviews The Poem That Changed America: 'Howl' Fifty Years Later, a collection of essays by writers about their first encounters with the famous poem by Allen Ginsberg.
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