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A review by liambetts
Birds of America by Lorrie Moore
5.0
It's been about two months since I've finished a book, so it's good to be back!
I spent the month of June and first week of July taking a playwriting/screenwriting class, so although I didn't read/write any fiction I read a TON of plays and scripts and wrote a lot of scenes. And then I just got back on the 25th from Camp Kesem, a week long summer camp that was absolutely amazing and exhausting.
In the interim I found out that I was accepted into Lorrie Moore's creative writing workshop at Vanderbilt, which I am super stoked/star-struck for! To prepare I've decided to read loads of short stories, and where better to start than with Moore herself.
I've read a few of her stories in the New Yorker before and was always impressed with them (Juniper Tree). Birds of America contains 12 of them. My favorites were definitely Dance in America, Real Estate, Terrific Mother, and of course People Like That.
It's clear that Moore is incredibly intelligent in the way that she crafts her sentences and metaphors. In the space of a few pages she manages to create complete worlds, characters, and relationships. She approaches dark and heart wrenching subjects with wit and her style is very inspiring.
There's more I could say but I'm a little rusty at this. I'm just very excited to get to be a student of hers next semester.
I spent the month of June and first week of July taking a playwriting/screenwriting class, so although I didn't read/write any fiction I read a TON of plays and scripts and wrote a lot of scenes. And then I just got back on the 25th from Camp Kesem, a week long summer camp that was absolutely amazing and exhausting.
In the interim I found out that I was accepted into Lorrie Moore's creative writing workshop at Vanderbilt, which I am super stoked/star-struck for! To prepare I've decided to read loads of short stories, and where better to start than with Moore herself.
I've read a few of her stories in the New Yorker before and was always impressed with them (Juniper Tree). Birds of America contains 12 of them. My favorites were definitely Dance in America, Real Estate, Terrific Mother, and of course People Like That.
It's clear that Moore is incredibly intelligent in the way that she crafts her sentences and metaphors. In the space of a few pages she manages to create complete worlds, characters, and relationships. She approaches dark and heart wrenching subjects with wit and her style is very inspiring.
There's more I could say but I'm a little rusty at this. I'm just very excited to get to be a student of hers next semester.