Nora Ephron's Heartburn (1983) -- Kurt Vonnegut's Galápagos (1985) -- Malcolm Bradbury's Cuts (1987) -- Anaïs Nin, Marilyn Monroe (1987) -- John Cheever (1988) -- Bobbie Ann Mason's Love Life (1989) -- V.S. Pritchett's A Careless Widow (1989) -- Stanley Elkin's The MacGuffin (1991) -- Don DeLillo's Mao II (1991) -- Election Day 1992: Voters in Wonderland (1992) -- Charles Baxter's Shadow Play (1993) -- Margaret Atwood's The Robber Bride (1993) -- On Writing (1994) -- Amos Oz (1996) -- Christmas for Everyone (1997) -- Starr-Clinton-Lewinsky (1998) -- Ann Beattie's New and Selected Stories (1998) -- JonBenét Ramsey by Lawrence Schiller (1999) -- Joyce Carol Oates's Broke Heart Blues (1999) -- Dawn Powell (1999) -- Best Love Song of the Millennium (1999) -- Titanic (2000) -- Claudia Roth Pierpont's Passionate Minds (2000) -- Philip Roth's The Human Stain (2000) -- Matthew Klam's Sam the Cat (2000) -- Legal Aide: My First Job (2001) -- Frederic Cassidy (2001) -- Alice Munro's Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage (2002) -- Edna St. Vincent Millay (2002) -- Darryl Pinckney and Caryl Phillips (2002) -- Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake (2003) -- John Updike's The Early Stories (2003) -- Nicholson Baker's Checkpoint (2004) -- Alice Munro's Runaway (2004) -- Joan Silber (2005) -- Eudora Welty (2006) -- Alice Munro's The Moons of Jupiter (2006) -- Shakespeare: The Modern Elizabethan (2006) -- One Hot Summer, or a Brief History of Time (2006) -- Stephen Sondheim's Sweeney Todd (2007) -- Peter Cameron (2007) -- Donald Barthelme (2009) -- Clarice Lispector (2009) -- Barack Obama (2009) -- The Wire (2010) -- Memoirs (2011) -- Friday Night Lights (2011) -- 9/11/11 (2011) -- GOP Primary Debate (2011) -- Werner Herzog's Into the Abyss (2011) -- Suzzy Roche's Wayward Saints (2012) -- Lena Dunham (2012) -- Wisconsin Recall (2012) -- Richard Ford's Canada (2012) -- Ethan Canin's "The Palace Thief" (2012) -- Homeland (2013) -- Jane Campion's Top of the Lake (2013) -- Blue Is the Warmest Color (2013) -- Bernard Malamud (2014) -- Miranda July (2014) -- True Detective (2015) -- Making a Murderer (2016) -- Helen Gurley Brown (2016) -- Ezra Edelman's O.J.: Made in America (2016) -- Thoughts on Hillary Clinton, December 2016 (2017) -- Stephen Stills (2017).
Summary:
This essential, enlightening, truly delightful collection shows one of our greatest writers parsing the political, artistic, and media landscape of the past three decades. These sixty-six essays and reviews, culled from the pages of The New York Review of Books, The New York Times, Harper's, The Atlantic, and The New Yorker, among others, find Lorrie Moore turning her discerning eye on everything from Philip Roth to Margaret Atwood, from race in America to the shocking state of the GOP, from celebrity culture to the wilds of television, from Stephen Sondheim to Barack Obama. See What Can Be Done is a perfect blend of craft, brains, and a knowing, singular take on life, liberty, and the pursuit of (some kind of) happiness.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.