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<\/i> I picked it up. They are so good. There’s almost no navel-gazing, there’s none of that whiff of the writer’s workshop about her stories. No. They are mini-novels. They are moments of devastating revelations … a moment in time when a life changes … or not … They are sad sad stories, more often than not, but the way she writes is so comedic that often I found myself laughing out loud. She’s very very funny. THAT is my kind of writing. But so few books! She’s a professor of English at the University of Wisconsin … and every now and then she’ll have a story in The New Yorker<\/i> so I suppose if you’re a fan of Lorrie Moore’s writing, you just have to learn patience.<\/p>\nAnyway – she wrote a wonderful piece for the New York Times in honor of Shakespeare’s birthday which was (circa) yesterday<\/a>. I always feel a bolt of excitement when I see her name. I can count writers I feel that way about on one hand and she’s one of THOSE writers for me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Lorrie Moore is one of my favorite writers. It’s kind of tough to have Lorrie Moore be one of your favorite writers because she publishes so rarely. But when she does? It tends to be an event. After a friend … Continue reading