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July 31, 2014

Title Menu: 10 Great "Minor" Works by Major Writers

July 31, 2014/ Open Letters Monthly

The great writers of the ages were hardly (often) one-hit wonders. In praise of diversity, the staff at OLM celebrate the lesser-known b-sides of some pretty well known pens.

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Arts & Life
Aldous Huxley, August 2014, Elizabeth Gaskell, Gerald of Wales, greg waldmann, Hamlet, Henry Adams, Jack Hanson, John Cotter, john updike, Justin Hickey, Kathleen Rooney, maureen thorson, rohan maitzen, Sam Sacks, shakespeare, Steve Donoghue
April 30, 2014

Title Menu: 8 books where bad decisions make good protagonists

April 30, 2014/ Kathleen Rooney

Characters never go wrong when their poor life choices make for fascinating reading. Kathleen Rooney supplies us with eight unmissable examples.

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April 30, 2014/ Kathleen Rooney/
Features, Fiction, Literary Criticism
Edith Wharton, fiction, Jean Rhys, Kathleen Rooney, literary criticism, Margaret Atwood, May 2014
November 30, 2012

Nothing To Do With Dante

November 30, 2012/ Michael Gushue

Kathleen Rooney's poems in Robinson Alone can be read two ways--as standalone pieces and as connected parts that form a single poetic narrative of a character's life

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November 30, 2012/ Michael Gushue/
Literary Criticism, Poetry
December 2012, Kathleen Rooney, literary criticism, Michael Gushue, Poetry, Poetry Review
May 31, 2011

The Old Stories

May 31, 2011/ Peter Jurmu

Good writers borrow, great writers steal. Sure, but should they steal whole characters? plots? authors? Robert Coover and the writers of Re: Telling steal it all and let their readers sort it out.

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May 31, 2011/ Peter Jurmu/
Fiction, Literary Criticism
Book Review, fiction, June 2011, Kathleen Rooney, Lewis Carroll, literary criticism
December 31, 2008

Three poems by Max Jacob

December 31, 2008/ Elisa Gabbert & Kathleen Rooney

translations by Elisa Gabbert and Kathleen Rooney

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December 31, 2008/ Elisa Gabbert & Kathleen Rooney/
Poetry
Elisa Gabbert, January 2009, Kathleen Rooney, Poetry
March 31, 2007

Three From Wave Books

March 31, 2007/ Kathleen Rooney

Kathy Rooney makes a close study of the cool-quotient of new books of poetry by Eileen Myles, Matthew Rohrer, and Christian Hawkey.

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March 31, 2007/ Kathleen Rooney/
Literary Criticism, Poetry
April 2007, Kathleen Rooney, literary criticism, Poetry
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