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Annie Proulx
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Annie Proulx

Annie Proulx is the author of eight books, including the novel The Shipping News and the story collection Close Range. Her many honors include a Pulitzer Prize, a National Book Award, the Irish Times International Fiction Prize, and a PEN/Faulkner award. Her story “Brokeback Mountain,” which originally appeared in The New Yorker, was made into an Academy Award-winning film. Her most recent book is Fine Just the Way It Is. She lives in Wyoming.

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The Shipping News has won an award
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Chapter 1 from The Shipping News
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Chapter 1 from Fine Just the Way It Is
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Fine Just the Way It Is
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Close Range
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Authors on the Web

San Francisco Chronicle, November 3, 2009
...A celebrated chronicler of rural life, E. Annie Proulx, has found a literary home in the big city. Proulx, whose works include the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel "The Shipping News" and the short story "Brokeback Mountain," which was...
Chicago Tribune, November 3, 2009
...NEW YORK -- A celebrated chronicler of rural life, E. Annie Proulx, has found a literary home in the big city...
BBC, November 3, 2009
...Annie Proulx was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1994 Brokeback Mountain author Annie Proulx is donating her papers - including an early draft of the short story - to New York...
DCExaminer.com, November 3, 2009
...NEW YORK — A celebrated chronicler of rural life, E. Annie Proulx, has found a literary home in the big city. Proulx, whose works include the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel 'The Shipping News' and the short story 'Brokeback Mountain' that was the...
CJOB 68, November 3, 2009
...NEW YORK - A celebrated chronicler of rural life, E. Annie Proulx, has found a literary home in the big city. Proulx, whose works include the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel 'The Shipping News' and the short story 'Brokeback Mountain' that was the...
Boston Globe, November 2, 2009
...NEW YORK --A celebrated chronicler of rural life, E. Annie Proulx, has found a literary home in the big city. Proulx, whose works include the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel 'The Shipping News' and the short story 'Brokeback Mountain' that was the...
Observer, October 31, 2009
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Australian IT, October 19, 2009
...Tim Winton, Patrick White or Margaret Fulton. (A lot of top US authors such as Cormac McCarthy and Annie Proulx are also generally missing). Brett Osmond, of Random House Australia, explains: 'We have a great interest in e-books, and a good relationship...
The List, October 2, 2009
...is the judge of a competition in which writers penned a story inspired by Jane Austen. Honno Press. Annie Proulx Another set of Wyoming stories full of bleakly Dickensian social hardships, tough weather and rough luck. Perennial. Catherine O'Flynn (ed)...
The Age, October 2, 2009
..."NOBODY is going to sit down and read a book on a twitchy little screen," US writer Annie Proulx said in 1994. "Ever." What a difference 15 years make. Today, millions read books on a variety of "twitchy little screens": laptops, e-books, iPods or...
News-Messenger, September 30, 2009
...reads from 7 to 8:15 p.m. Oct. 8, with a discussion of 'The Shipping News' by Annie Proulx. Books can be requested through the library catalog at any time or by contacting the reference department. New members and walk-ins are always welcome. For...
Orange County Register, September 17, 2009
...authors? A. I like to read a little of everything. Some of my favorite authors are Kate DiCamillo, Annie Proulx, Harper Lee, Emily Dickinson and most any kind of book of poems. Send story ideas to Debbiesklar@cox.net...
The Independent, September 5, 2009
...in Nowhere, Nebraska, who read an Anita Brookner novel would find it just as weird as we find Annie Proulx. *** The Daily Star, that barometer of the national conscience, carried a sad story about Jordan, aka Katie Price, being confronted by a gang of...
USA Today, September 2, 2009
...$19, non-fiction, reprint) Sheds new light on FDR's formative years. "Fine Just the Way It Is by Annie Proulx (Scribner, $15, fiction, reprint) Pulitzer Prize winner's third volume of short stories set in the American West...
Culturevulture.net, August 20, 2009
...working-class heart of small-town America, and the consequences of inequitable distribution of wealth in our society. -- E. Annie Proulx, 'Postcards' (Collier). Winner of the Pen/Faulkner Award. A remarkable story of the struggle to confront the loss of...
TheaterMania, August 15, 2009
...Authorship Conspiracy (May 2 at 11am). Other authors who will appear at the Poetry Center include Adrienne Rich, Annie Proulx, A.S. Byatt, Orhn Pamuk, Martin Amis, Rita Dove, Paul Auster, Jamaica Kincaid, John Irving, Brad Gooch, Joyce Carol Oates, and...
TheaterMania, August 15, 2009
...Authorship Conspiracy (May 2 at 11am). Other authors who will appear at the Poetry Center include Adrienne Rich, Annie Proulx, A.S. Byatt, Orhn Pamuk, Martin Amis, Rita Dove, Paul Auster, Jamaica Kincaid, John Irving, Brad Gooch, Joyce Carol Oates, and...
Adelaide Now, July 25, 2009
...windows of the school corridor did as much for critical thinking as Macbeth ever did. I read E. Annie Proulx's The Shipping News after a major relationship meltdown in Melbourne. Quoyle's gentle unravelling helped me make my own fresh start: within...
Irish Times, July 17, 2009
...Annie Proulx, in west Cork, wants to find out what made the Irish who emigrated land-hungry, avaricious and destructive of the very territory they claimed, writes MARY LELAND ITS HARD to...
Guardian Unlimited, July 8, 2009
...The novelist finds some startlingly fresh stories ? from Mark Twain, Willa Cather, Annie Proulx and others ? in the old west Missy is the first novel from playwright Chris Hannan, whose work has been produced by the RSC and the National Theatre of...
Discover Ireland, July 5, 2009
...Sebastian Barry, John Banville, Joseph O'Connor, Carlo Gebler, Bernard MacLaverty and Jeanette Winterson. The 2009 festival promises Annie Proulx, Jennifer Johnston, Martina Cole, Roger McGough, Louis de Bernieres, Nell McCafferty, Tariq Ali, Darren...
Boise Weekly, July 2, 2009
...this fall in the anthology The Best of the West 2009 alongside writers like Joyce Carol Oates and Annie Proulx. 'Swan's Home,' also in the novel, won the annual Prairie Schooner award for short fiction this spring. It's no wonder Wieland looked happy...
Boise Weekly, July 1, 2009
...this fall in the anthology The Best of the West 2009 alongside writers like Joyce Carol Oates and Annie Proulx. 'Swan's Home,' also in the novel, won the annual Prairie Schooner award for short fiction this spring. It's no wonder Wieland looked happy...
Irish Independent, June 28, 2009
...breathtaking cast of bookish types. Starting next Sunday, the West Cork Literary Festival will feature Pulitzer prize-winning writer Annie Proulx, Irish novelist Jennifer Johnston, Liverpudlian favourite Roger McGough, bestselling crime writer Martina...
Examiner.com, June 13, 2009
...modern literature, and shows a depth and ambition few writers even attempt. Work Close Range: Wyoming Stories, by Annie Proulx 'They say we're dumb but they don't say we're cowards.' -Diamond Felts, on rodeo cowboys; 'The Mud Below' Ropecut palms and...
Examiner.com, June 10, 2009
...which characterized the Cold War (at least in my mind). Buy it here. Close Range: Wyoming Stories, by Annie Proulx The short stories in this book are among the best written this century. ?Brokeback Mountain? is heartbreak, an excruciating kind of joy...
The Age, May 29, 2009
...across ice becomes an odyssey or test of courage. Is there a classic winter story? Possible candidates are Annie Proulx's The Shipping News and Peter Hoeg's Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow, and there's always that Tolstoy short story, Master and Servant,...
New West, May 24, 2009
...mumblings of cowboy dialogue (the only clear masters of the form are, in descending order, Cormac McCarthy and Annie Proulx), a rancher saying sho and mudder is like reaching into a cookie jar to find a mousetrap. Clearly, I have my own issues. Damn if...
Booktv, May 20, 2009
...female writers in American in her book, A Jury of Her Peers: American Writers from Anne Bradstreet to Annie Proulx. Ms. Showalter explores the influence women have had on the American literary canon and profiles authors from throughout the history of the...
Skidmore College, May 18, 2009
...Books of 2008.? Previous authors similarly honored by the ESU include Tom Wolfe, John Cheever, Philip Roth, and Annie Proulx. The ESU promotes scholarship and the advancement of knowledge through the effective use of English in an expanding global...
Guardian Unlimited, May 8, 2009
...McEwan declared the end, no less, of the golden age of the American novel. Except it isn't. Annie Proulx, Anne Tyler, Marilynne Robinson, Jane Smiley, Joyce Carol Oates, Jayne Anne Phillips, Bobbie Ann Mason and Gish Jen are eight women selected by our...
Guardian Unlimited, May 8, 2009
...McEwan declared the end, no less, of the golden age of the American novel. Except it isn't. Annie Proulx, Anne Tyler, Marilynne Robinson, Jane Smiley, Joyce Carol Oates, Jayne Anne Phillips, Bobbie Ann Mason and Gish Jen are eight women selected by our...
Guardian Unlimited, April 21, 2009
...Faulkner and Ernest Hemingway. In more recent years the honours have gone to Cormac McCarthy for The Road, Annie Proulx for The Shipping News and, last year, Junot Díaz for The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao. The history Pulitzer went to The Hemingses...
High Country News, April 16, 2009
...April 13, 2009 issue of High Country News by Emma Brown Document Actions Font Size: A A A Annie Proulx does not love the Red Desert in southern Wyoming. That's what she says, anyway, though she's spent the last six years writing and editing a nonfiction...
Moose Jaw Times-Herald, April 15, 2009
...glitch' had caused the sales rank to be dropped from thousands of books, the numbers returned Tuesday for Annie Proulx's 'Brokeback Mountain,' James Baldwin's 'Giovanni's Room' and other notable titles. Some authors whose rankings were dropped have...
AFP via Yahoo!, April 14, 2009
...future,' it said. Among the books which lost their rankings were James Baldwin's 'Giovanni's Room' and Annie Proulx's 'Brokeback Mountain,' according to Publishers Weekly. The disappearance of particular books from the Amazon sales charts was first...
CTV.ca, April 14, 2009
...glitch' had caused the sales rank to be dropped from thousands of books, the numbers returned Tuesday for Annie Proulx's 'Brokeback Mountain,' James Baldwin's 'Giovanni's Room' and other notable titles. Some authors whose rankings were dropped have...
Y108 Rocks, April 14, 2009
...glitch' had caused the sales rank to be dropped from thousands of books, the numbers returned Tuesday for Annie Proulx's 'Brokeback Mountain,' James Baldwin's 'Giovanni's Room' and other notable titles. Some authors whose rankings were dropped have...
Sky News, April 14, 2009
...ham-fisted' error for the disappearance of gay authors from its best-seller lists. Famous books including Brokeback Mountain by Annie Proulx were removed from best-seller lists and became near-impossible to search for. Speculation has been rife online...
TechRadar.com, April 14, 2009
...heavy-handed censoring included modern American classics such as James Baldwin's Giovanni's Room and Brokeback Mountain by Annie Proulx, as well as books by Jeannette Winterson, Alan Hollinghurst and Gore Vidal. Conspiracy or glitch? Denying the...
All Things Digital, April 14, 2009
...material it finds distasteful or that it thinks some customers will find distasteful. Example: Amazon?s listing for Annie Proulx?s ?Brokeback Mountain? doesn?t have a sales rank. But the author?s newest book does have one. From what I can...
The Register, April 13, 2009
...books including James Baldwin's Giovanni's Room, Rubyfruit Jungle by Rita Mae Brown, and Brokeback Mountain by Annie Proulx, has been taken as an affront by many because sales rankings are often used to promote specific titles. Higher scores frequently...
TheCelebrityCafe.com, April 13, 2009
...include Giovanni's Room, by James Baldwin, Dancer from the Dance, by Andrew Holleran, and Brokeback Mountain, by Annie Proulx. Not all books are excluded from being ranked. Rubyfruit Jungle, by Rita Mae Brown, and Little Birds: Erotica, by Anais Nin, are...
After Elton, April 13, 2009
...Amazon.com strip the sales ranks of it as well as almost all on their site ? including Annie Proulx's Brokeback Mountain, Edmund White's A Boy's Own Story and 20s lesbian classic The Well of Loneliness ? at the same time it's removing the sales...
PublishersWeekly.com, April 12, 2009
...entire customer base.' Whether a glitch or new policy, titles like James Baldwin's Giovanni's Room and Annie Proulx's Brokeback Mountain are among the titles who have lost their ranking...
PublishersWeekly.com, April 12, 2009
...entire customer base.' Whether a glitch or new policy, titles like James Baldwin's Giovanni's Room and Annie Proulx's Brokeback Mountain are among the titles who have lost their ranking...
PRWeb, March 29, 2009
...bride, Beth. A reviewer for Library Journal wrote, 'I consider Thomas Savage's (The Pass) a minor classic.' Annie Proulx, in her afterword to The Power of the Dog, said of The Pass, 'The novel is studded with brilliant portraits that already display...
Guelph Mercury, March 28, 2009
...Scribner, 221 pages, $29.99) After living in, and writing evocatively and memorably about New England and Newfoundland, Annie Proulx moved to Wyoming a decade ago. Her new home, both real and imagined, has given her three collections of stories,...
Seattle Times, March 21, 2009
...journey with scarcely a becalmed page. 'A Jury of Her Peers: American Women Writers from Anne Bradstreet to Annie Proulx' (Knopf, 512 pp., $30) is a rich, readable book, as well as an immensely valuable work of scholarship. The hefty anthology is vibrant...
NPR, March 10, 2009
...publication by American women from the days of Puritan Anne Bradstreet to the modern-day gay cowboy tales of Annie Proulx. Of course, Showalter stumbles sometimes on this long matriarchal march: for instance, she doesn't seem as engaged in the final...
New York Times, March 9, 2009
...ours to a jarring degree.? In ?A Jury of Her Peers: American Women Writers From Anne Bradstreet to Annie Proulx? (reviewed March 8), Elaine Showalter considers Mitchell as a Depression writer: Mitchell?s message ?endured because it spoke to the...
Guardian Unlimited, March 5, 2009
...young hippy mother finding herself in Morocco? Matthew Freud Esther Freud Emma Freud Bella Freud 7. In E Annie Proulx's The Shipping News, where does Brooklyn-born Quoyle relocate after the death of his wife? Newfoundland Maine Wyoming Nova Scotia 8....
Salt Lake Tribune, February 28, 2009
...timeless in its ability to weather readers' changing priorities. Showalter ends this remarkable book with Jane Smiley and Annie Proulx, both equally comfortable writing from male and female perspectives, both unafraid to challenge their male forebears....
Chicago Tribune, February 28, 2009
...between 70 percent and 90 percent of all fiction. Showalter ends this remarkable book with Jane Smiley and Annie Proulx, both equally comfortable writing from male and female perspectives. Showalter has spent her life, in and out of academia (she is...
Houston Chronicle, February 27, 2009
...with second-generation immigrants including Gish Jen and Julia Alvarez. Showalter ends this remark-able book with Jane Smiley and Annie Proulx, both equally comfortable writing from male and female perspectives. Nor have they been afraid to challenge...
Orlando Sentinel, February 24, 2009
...that question in her newest book A Jury of Her Peers: American Women Writers from Anne Bradstreet to Annie Proulx, . The question itself is not new, as Miller points out in her review. Every so often someone puts together the hard facts and notices that...
Greenwich Time, February 22, 2009
...with second-generation immigrants including Gish Jen and Julia Alvarez. Showalter ends this remarkable book with Jane Smiley and Annie Proulx, both equally comfortable writing from male and female perspectives. Nor have they been afraid to challenge...
Austin Chronicle, February 20, 2009
...moral outrage from the start. With A Jury of Her Peers: American Women Writers From Anne Bradstreet to Annie Proulx, feminist critic Elaine Showalter tackles the first ever comprehensive history of American women writers. Exploring forgotten writers and...
Austin Chronicle, February 19, 2009
...moral outrage from the start. With A Jury of Her Peers: American Women Writers From Anne Bradstreet to Annie Proulx, feminist critic Elaine Showalter tackles the first ever comprehensive history of American women writers. Exploring forgotten writers and...
Los Angeles Times, February 13, 2009
...A Jury of Her Peers American Women Writers From Anne Bradstreet to Annie Proulx Elaine Showalter Alfred A. Knopf: 608 pp., $30 The title of this, the 'first literary history of American women writers ever written,' explains Elaine Showalter, comes from a...
Sunday Tribune Ireland, February 9, 2009
...people were hanged in public and wives were servants or worse, slaves. If you like Cormac McCarthy or Annie Proulx, you will love this. Remember Me By Melvyn Bragg Sceptre £8 551pps IF THIS is autobiographical fiction, as claimed by some, then it must...
Washington Blade, January 30, 2009
...Brokeback was something different. Jensen added that it was a confluence of an amazing short story by E. Annie Proulx, an amazing director in Ang Lee, a fantastic script by Larry McMurtry, and these amazing performances from Heath [Ledger] and Jake...
PublishersWeekly.com, January 27, 2009
...Va.; now lives in New York City and Virginia. Favorite authors: Russell Banks, John Cheever, J.M. Coetzee, Annie Proulx, Cormac McCarthy, Toni Morrison, Alice Munro, Flannery O'Connor, Harold Pinter, W.G. Sebald. Career arc: From farmworker to filmmaker...
Marshall News Messenger, December 31, 2008
...editor of .) Among the writers whose work appeared in its pages were John Gregory Dunne, Tracy Kidder and Annie Proulx. Mr. Nylen resigned as publisher in March 1990 and was succeeded by Richard Todd. New England Monthly ceased publication that...
MovieMaker, December 28, 2008
...character dynamics, started to change that perception. SHARE THIS STORY TAGS a la recherche du temps perdu adaptations annie proulx bleak house book-to-film projects brokeback mountain casablanca children of men christina hamlett david kahane diana...
Columbia Journalism Review, December 25, 2008
...Lush Life ? Richard Price Once Upon a Distant War ? William Prochnau The Shipping News ? E. Annie Proulx What Are Journalists For? ? Jay Rosen One More Time: The Best of Mike Royko ? Mike Royko Slats Grobnik and Some Other Friends ? Mike...
Winston-Salem Journal, December 21, 2008
...I recently finished reading Annie Proulx's splendid novel The Shipping News. In the fiction category, it won the 1994 Pulitzer Prize and the 1993 National Book Award. The story is set mainly in Newfoundland...
New Yorker, December 15, 2008
...Orlean (Abrams; $16.95). Dictation, by Cynthia Ozick (Houghton Mifflin; $24). Fine Just the Way It Is, by Annie Proulx (Scribner; $25). The Enchantress of Florence, by Salman Rushdie (Random House; $26). The God of War, by Marisa Silver (Simon &...
Telegraph, November 26, 2008
...owner's motives result in a tragically ironic development with as many moral surprises as the best of Annie Proulx. Not all these stories are so ambitious, but all are every bit as good as Ballard or Vonnegut. 'Ringtime' amusingly suggests how people of...
Chicago Tribune, November 25, 2008
...noticedperhaps even thumbed through. It's a select group of titles, including hundreds of copies of books by Annie Proulx and Stuart Harrison and Antonia Fraser. Customers Tim Larson and Thea Rubin peruse shelves lined with these books and thousands of...
Toronto Star Online, November 23, 2008
...of an extended police investigation, hardly qualifies the book as a mere cop thriller. That's like calling Annie Proulx (Close Range, Fine Just the Way It Is) a western writer because her stories have horses in them. 'If it's good enough, it doesn't...
Rush is a Band, October 13, 2009
...The Life and Times of a Nova Scotia Immigrant by Lesley Choyce Shipping News: A Novel by E. Annie Proulx Architects Are Here by Michael Winter The Wreckage by Michael Crummey Thanks to Andrew Olson for the heads up. Digg this | Reddit | Del.icio.us |...
NewPages Blog, October 6, 2009
...contains essays and articles on authors including J.G. Ballard, Anne Enright, A.M. Homes, Tim O’Brien, Annie Proulx, Jenefer Shute and Graham Swift written by Elizabeth Baines, Brian Baker, Kym Brindle, Alison Kelly,Paola Trimarco, Ursula Hurley, and...
Seattle Gay Scene, October 2, 2009
...The Seattle Arts & Lecture's season opener is Annie Proulx, the author of the short story Brokeback Mountain, at Benaroya Hall on October 7 at 7:30pm. “Through a sequence of vividly imagined and boldly idiosyncratic works of...
Dy's Take, September 27, 2009
...I chose this one for several reasons: I happen to already have it on audio (from the library) It’s relatively short and my TBR list is anything but short. This one makes me proud to live in Austin, even if my kid doesn’t attend this school (see...
Read Street, September 22, 2009
...s been a long, cold spell since the 1980s. Too bad for authors such as Alice McDermott, E. Annie Proulx, Jonathan Franzen, Alice Walker and Pete Dexter. Starting this week, you can vote at the foundation's web site.  The winner will be announced Nov....
PowellsBooks.BLOG, August 28, 2009
...it's not easy to break into publishing. In fact, industry insiders wonder if edgy, experimental writers like Annie Proulx or Jack Kerouac would have problems breaking into print in today's corporate culture. But wouldn't the world be a dimmer, duller...
The Creative Nerd, August 25, 2009
...TT participants canadd the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!From Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx, page 182: "I wish to inquire about the position of architectural draughtsperson. Although my training is in marine traffic control I am...
Band of Thebes, August 10, 2009
...Niffenegger, Philip Pullman, Donna Tartt, Elmore Leonard, and 101 Dalmatians , while omitting Iris Murdoch, James Baldwin, Ernest Hemingway, Annie Proulx, William Faulkner, Anne Tyler, Alice Munro, William Trevor, Halldor Laxness, Hilary Mantel, Kazuo...
Smithereens, August 8, 2009
...Especially when I’ll be vacationing in sunny, tidy, flowery Tyrol. Sometimes it reminds me a little of Annie Proulx’ prairie, but not with the same sensibility. Mmh, let me think a little more about this comparison and get back to you at the end of...
Simply Books, August 5, 2009
...and darkly comic, and at times magical portrait of the contemporary American family, The Shipping News shows why Annie Proulx is recognized as one of the most gifted and original writers in America today. (Taken from back of book) So this is the first...
HorrorScope, July 31, 2009
...did Anita Brookner; Marina Lewycka was 58 when her debut, A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian, appeared; Annie Proulx was 58 when she won the PEN/Faulkner book award for her debut novel and the following year she won a Pulitzer Prize for The...
Emerging Writer, June 7, 2009
...with a galaxy of writerly stars of different persuasions. 6th - 11th July 2009 Pulitzer prize winning writer Annie Proulx, Irish author Jennifer Johnston, Liverpudlian favourite Roger McGough, bestselling crime writer Martina Cole and journalist Nell...
Exile on Ninth Street, June 7, 2009
...especially beginners setting about on the daunting task of writing a novel.  *** This week also began Annie Proulx’s The Shipping News , as part of my 100-novels reading project. It details the story of hapless third-rate newspaperman Quoyle as he,...
OH! BOOKS...PAPER...REAL LIFE..., June 7, 2009
...the Pretty Horses – Cormac McCarthy Bright Lights, Big City   – Jay McInerney The Shipping News – Annie Proulx Bird by Bird – Anne Lamott Harry Potter – JK Rowling Zen and the Art of Writing – Ray Bradbury Bridget Jones Diary – Helen...
Wikipedia - New pages [en], May 26, 2009
...Yorker Walter Mosley "Pet Fly" The New Yorker ZZ Packer "Brownies" Harper's Magazine Edith Pearlman "Allog" Ascent Annie Proulx "People in Hell Just Want a Drink of Water" GQ Frances Sherwood "Basil the Dog" The Atlantic Monthly [ edit ] Notes ^...
Entertainment, May 15, 2009
...The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen, The Year Of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion and The Shipping News by Annie Proulx. Each has an artist-designed dust jacket that folds out into a limited edition print; Adichie's is by Hurvin Anderson, a Birmingham...
Oklahoma Women's Network Blog, May 12, 2009
...article by Elaine Showalter (author of A Jury of her Peers: American Women Writers From Anne Bradstreet To Annie Proulx ) on why women aren't counted among the "giants of American letters." She asks, "So where are all the women?" and discusses the best...
Comment is free + World news-World news | guardian, May 8, 2009
...McEwan declared the end, no less, of the golden age of the American novel. Except it isn't. Annie Proulx, Anne Tyler, Marilynne Robinson, Jane Smiley, Joyce Carol Oates, Jayne Anne Phillips, Bobbie Ann Mason and Gish Jen are eight women selected by our...
Comment is free | guardian.co.uk, May 8, 2009
...McEwan declared the end, no less, of the golden age of the American novel. Except it isn't. Annie Proulx, Anne Tyler, Marilynne Robinson, Jane Smiley, Joyce Carol Oates, Jayne Anne Phillips, Bobbie Ann Mason and Gish Jen are eight women selected by our...
Paul Burman, May 2, 2009
...to be met and there just isn't enough time to meet them all as it is. E. Annie Proulx's The Shipping News was one of these. When I read it, quite a few years ago, I knew I was going to indulge myself in a second reading...
The Hand Mirror, April 28, 2009
...Showalter talks about her new book A Jury of Her Peers: American Women Writers From Anne Bradstreet to Annie Proulx (Knopf), and discusses some of these issues. Showalter argues that even today, after all these freaking years, women's writing remains...
It's all about me, April 24, 2009
...Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier (1997) The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen (2001) Double-dipper: The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx...
Rose City Reader, April 22, 2009
...These double-dippers are: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz; The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx; The Color Purple by Alice Walker; Rabbit is Rich by John Updike; The Fixer by Bernard Malamud; The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne...
scatterplot, April 13, 2009
...out a list of de-ranked books here ; they include the works of James Baldwin, Edmund White, EM Forster, Annie Proulx, Jeanette Winterson, etc. This has been happening for months. But rather than own up to it, Amazon is lamely suggesting that it’s a new...
AMERICAblog News| A great nation deserves the trut, April 13, 2009
...a bunch of gay-themed literature, including the critically-acclaimed "Giovanni's Room" by James Baldwin, and "Brokeback Mountain" by Annie Proulx. Why the "glitch" especially targeted books by gay authors and/or about gay characters suggests that Amazon...
stephen fry - Twitter Search, April 12, 2009
...Grandchessboard http://is.gd/s2I1 List of books Amazon thinks are too controversial incl Stephen Fry, James Baldwin and Annie Proulx about 1 hour ago from web kdaustin katherine austin...
stephen fry - Twitter Search, April 12, 2009
...Glinner : http://bit.ly/34B0qe Books Amazon thinks are too controversial to be ranked. Includes Stephen Fry, James Baldwin, Annie Proulx 2 minutes ago from web Calypso2 Madame Miao...
Landscape Heaven, April 4, 2009
...tags: literary fiction (8), american literature (4), farming (3), orphans (3), kentucky (3), music (2), willa cather (2), annie proulx , farm , f scott fitzgerald , american , edith wharton...
A Work in Progress, March 15, 2009
...a book by it's cover, right!   A Jury of Her Peers: American Women Writers from Anne Bradstreet to Annie Proulx  by Elaine S howalter.  I think I may ha ve to buy this one (I have  a 15% off coupon conveni ently).  Aside from the fac t...
A Line A Day, March 8, 2009
...1993 A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain by Robert Olen Butler 1994 The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx 1995 The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields 1996 Independence Day by Richard Ford 1997 Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer by Steven...
college textbooks,sport watch, March 4, 2009
...York. In addition, cultural commentator Glenn O'Brien contributes a series of interviews with popular culture initiators like Annie Proulx, Phyllis Diller, John Waters, Michael Ovitz, Kim Gordon and Robert Mankoff, among many others, providing a...
RosieBell, February 27, 2009
...sounding book by Elaine Showalter:- "A Jury of Her Peers: American Women Writers From Anne Bradstreet to Annie Proulx." Billed as "the first comprehensive history of American women writers from 1650 to 2000," "A Jury of Her Peers" has to negotiate the...
A Work in Progress, February 26, 2009
...Bowes, Countess of Strathmore , Wendy Moore A Jury of Her Peers: American Women Writers from Anne Bradstreet to Annie Proulx , Elaine Showalter (I may have to buy this one).  Spring is traditionally a big publishing season, it's just a matter of...
Meaningful Contributions, February 3, 2009
...In A Jury of Her Peers: American Woman Writers from Anne Bradstreet to Annie Proulx , Elaine Showalter ’62 examines the work of more than 250 authors whose work was published over a span of about 350 years, making the volume the first comprehensive...
KnowRead/KnoWrite, January 26, 2009
...Name Is Asher Lev by Chaim Potok The Good Companions by JB Priestley The Shipping News by E Annie Proulx x @ Remembrance of Things Past by Marcel Proust A Married Man by Piers Paul Read Pointed Roofs by Dorothy Richardson The Fortunes of Richard Mahoney...
A Work in Progress, January 25, 2009
...Name Is Asher Lev by Chaim Potok The Good Companions by JB Priestley The Shipping News by E Annie Proulx Remembrance of Things Past by Marcel Proust A Married Man by Piers Paul Read Pointed Roofs by Dorothy Richardson The Fortunes of Richard Mahoney by...
PalmTree Pundit, January 24, 2009
...Randy Shilts (1987) 87. The Ruins, Scott Smith (2006) 88. High Fidelity, Nick Hornby (1995) 89. Close Range, Annie Proulx (1999) 90. Comfort Me With Apples, Ruth Reichl (2001) 91. Random Family, Adrian Nicole LeBlanc (2003) 92. Presumed Innocent, Scott...
deborah, January 23, 2009
...a Film at Amazon.com/a/b br brpBeyond Brokeback is a sampling of deeply moving personal stories prompted by Annie Proulx’s short story Brokeback Mountain and the Ang Lee film which it inspired; a movie in which the ravages of self-denial are portrayed...
PhiloBiblos, January 23, 2009
...forged are those of Truman Capote, Tom Clancy, Michael Crichton, John Grisham, John Irving, Norman Mailer, James Michener, Annie Proulx, Anne Rice, Philip Roth, Leon Uris, Kurt Vonnegut, and Tom Wolfe. Prosecutors believe Smith had rubber stamps made of...
Books: Books blog | guardian.co.uk, January 16, 2009
...prescribed medication imagines he sees tyrannosaurs in his daughter's bedroom. At the Brokeback Mountains of Madness, By Annie Proulx and HP Lovecraft: Two cowboys spend some time on an arctic peak and find a gateway to another world. The Story of I...
esther, January 12, 2009
...Along the way, many of America’s  best journalists and storytellers–including such writers as Jon Krakauer, Tim Cahill, E. Annie Proulx, Edward Abbey, Thomas McGuane, David Quammen, and Jane Smiley–have made the magazine a venue for some of their...
Omnivoracious, January 8, 2009
...as the greatest Western novel ever. It certainly is the one that started it all. Close Range by Annie Proulx: Subverting the Western, or expanding it? Long before Jake and Heath first rode up into the Rockies, "Brokeback Mountain," when I ran across it...
A Crockhead Abroad, January 1, 2009
...Ken Kesey The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and other short stories, F. Scott Fitzgerald The Shipping News, Annie Proulx When the Emperor Was Divine, Julie Otsuka Missing Mom, Joyce Carol Oates A Separate Peace, John Knowles The Innocent Man, John...
A Patchwork Life, December 29, 2008
...- Herman Melville River God - Wilbur Smith Sunset Song - Lewis Grassic Gibbon The Shipping News - Annie Proulx The World According To Garp - John Irving Lorna Doone - RD Blackmore Girls Out Late - Jacqueline Wilson The Far Pavilions - MM Kaye The Witches...
Asylum, December 20, 2008
...about the ups and downs of honesty with others and with ourselves, and the terrifying compulsion for change (Annie Proulx’s “if you can’t fix it, you’ve got to stand it” might not have been bad advice to the Wheelers), it is also about the ups...
Nobody's Business, December 13, 2008
...your bottom dollar that if the goat's-bladder metaphor had been employed by a Times -approved novelist like Annie Proulx (much of whose prose deserves a special award for being laughably contrived and overwrought), a Times reviewer would have either...
Kutukutubuku.com Blog, December 4, 2008
...Trevor Disappearance – David Dabydeen The Invention of Curried Sausage – Uwe Timm The Shipping News – E. Annie Proulx Trainspotting – Irvine Welsh Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks Looking for the Possible Dance – A.L. Kennedy Operation Shylock –...
The Truth About Lies, December 1, 2008
...sentence is another thing entirely. In his article Mastering the long sentence , Roy Clark examines two sentences by Annie Proulx , the author of 'Brokeback Mountain' , and feels he has come up with a formula: Make meaning early with subject and verb;...