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" A new collection of pieces on literature and life by the author of Am I Alone Here? , a finalist for the NBCC Award for Criticism Stationed in the South Pacific during World War II, Seymour Orner wrote a letter every day to his wife, Lorraine. She seldom responded, leading him to plead in 1945, &ldquo,nother day and still no word from you.&rdquo,Seventy years later, Peter Orner writes in response to his grandfather&rsquo, plea: &ldquo,aybe we read because we seek that word from someone, from anyone.&rdquo,br〉 ,br〉From the acclaimed fiction writer about whom Dwight Garner of The New York Times wrote, &ldquo,ou know from the second you pick him up that he&rsquo, the real deal,&rdquo,comes Still No Word from You , a unique chain of essays and intimate stories that meld the lived life and the reading life. For Orner, there is no separation. Covering such well-known writers as Lorraine Hansberry, Primo Levi, and Marilynne Robinson, as well as other greats like Maeve Brennan and James Alan McPherson, Orner&rsquo, highly personal take on literature alternates with his own true stories of loss and love, hope and despair. In his mother&rsquo, copy of A Coney Island of the Mind , he&rsquo, stopped short by a single word in the margin, &ldquo,ES!&rdquo,mdash,hich leads him to conjure his mother at twenty-three. He stops reading Penelope Fitzgerald&rsquo, The Beginning of Spring three quarters of the way through because he knows that finishing the novel will leave him bereft. Orner&rsquo, solution is to start again from the beginning to slow the inevitable heartache. ,br〉 Still No Word from You is a book for anyone for whom reading is as essential as breathing."
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Biographisches: " PETER ORNER is the author of the novels The Second Coming of Mavala Shikongo and Love and Shame and Love and the story collections Esther Stories , Last Car Over the Sagamore Bridge , and Maggie Brown &,Others . His previous collection of essays, Am I Alone Here?: Notes on Living to Read and Reading to Live , was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism. A three-time recipient of the Pushcart Prize, Orner&rsquo, work has appeared in The Best American Short Stories, The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The Paris Review, Granta, McSweeney&rsquo, , and has been translated into eight ,anguages. He has been awarded the Rome Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a two-year Lannan Foundation Literary Fellowship, the California Book Award for fiction, the Edward Lewis Wallant Award for Jewish fiction, as well as a Fulbright in Namibia. He is the director of creative writing at Dartmouth College and lives with his family in Norwich, Vermont." Rezension(2): "〈a href=http://www.publishersweekly.com target=blank〉〈img src=https://images.contentreserve.com/pw_logo.png alt=Publisher's Weekly border=0 /〉〈/a〉: Starred review from June 6, 2022 Pushcart Prize–winning fiction writer Orner ( Maggie Brown &,Others ) brings his lyrical, mosaic style to the story of his own life in this gorgeous and contemplative memoir. Blending photographs, family lore, speculation, and literary musings, Orner’s nonlinear narrative weaves through elliptical reflections and faint memories from his 1970s childhood to the sorrows and delights of his adulthood. The poetry of Yusef Komunyakaa, for instance, becomes a salve in the aftermath of his stepfather’s death, loitering in Orner’s mind as he reflects on his mother’s grief: “We all go where love takes us, whether closer or farther.” Elsewhere, seeking solace from some unnamed grievance, Orner spends a day marveling at the crowded prose of Bernadette Mayer’s Midwinter Day : “ connect like they do in our actual brains. Meaning: they don’t.” A similar stream of consciousness logic pervades his loosely connected vignettes, with certain recurring figures and dreamlike appearances of half-forgotten acquaintances. As Orner observes, “There’s no greater fantasy on the face of the earth than the linearity of time. Time only circles.” Likewise, when his fragmented ruminations loop back to a powerful impression or image or favorite book, the effect is like turning over a prism in one’s hands, catching vivid flashes of light at each angle. Evocative and erudite, this meditation on impermanence and its ephemeral joys is a gem." Rezension(3): "〈a href=http://www.kirkusreviews.com target=blank〉〈img src=https://images.contentreserve.com/kirkus_logo.png alt=Kirkus border=0 /〉〈/a〉: August 15, 2022 Another top-notch collection from the author of Am I Alone Here? Orner--a legitimate triple-threat: novelist, short story master, and prolific essayist--returns with an addictive collection of more than 100 buoyant essays organized around a single day and a wide range of emotions. Preaching the gospel of fiction--and literature in general--the author roves around freely, exploring the work of Virginia Woolf, John Cheever, Primo Levi, Shirley Hazzard, Gina Berriault, Robert Hayden Marilynne Robinson, Yoel Hoffmann, Stacy Doris, Juan Rulfo, and numerous others. The lyrical chapters unwind from noisy Morning to melancholy Night. Orner begins with vivid memories of his loud, cackling family members--mother, father, uncles, Grandpa Freddy in Fall River, Massachusetts--and growing up in Highland Park near Lake Michigan, a tear rolling down the face of the Midwest, and he recounts the sadness a dumb Jewish kid felt watching Larry Holmes beat Muhammad Ali in 1980. Later, the author confesses, while reflecting on the more than 4,000 haiku that Richard Wright composed during his career, like so many of my stories, nonstories, there's no movement, no forward momentum. By Mid-Morning, Orner is wistful that fellow Midwestern author Wright Morris is forgotten, yes, but still among us. Orner also ponders his grandfather's World War II letters to his showgirl wife, Lorraine, often begging her to write him back. The author tells us why he permanently borrowed James Alan McPherson's Hue and Cry from the library, a book that contains Gold Coast, a story he wishes he could memorize and recite like a prayer. Ella Leffland's Mrs. Munck, which he left unfinished on a train, is one of those rare books you go on reading whether you are reading them or not. As Orner inches toward Night, readers will be lamenting the end of his wise, welcoming, heartfelt book. COPYRIGHT(2022) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. " Rezension(4): "〈a href=https://www.booklistonline.com target=blank〉〈img src=https://images.contentreserve.com/booklist_logo.png alt=Booklist border=0 /〉〈/a〉: October 15, 2022 Kafka, Orner avers, was an incomparable reader, a statement inspired by Kafka's key insight into Don Quixote. Orner considers other visionary readers, whom he says are, by their nature, generally unknown, yet clearly he is one himself. His fiction, collected most recently in Maggie Brown & Others (2019), is resplendent in both feeling and artistry due, in great part, to his visionary reading, a practice so crucial to his existence that in this memoir-in-essays, as in Am I Alone Here? Notes on Living to Read and Reading to Live (2016), there is no divide between the literary and the personal. Orner infuses his brief, jazzy, wistful, intimate, funny, and haunting narratives with abiding regret, sharp observations, and intricate musings about inheritance, childhood, parenthood, and divorce, home and displacement, profundity and ludicrousness. He portrays himself at his lowest moments and in ecstatic contemplation of the electrifying writings of fellow Chicagoans Lorraine Hansberry and Bette Howland as well as Primo Levy, Jean Rhys, Bernadette Mayer, and so many more. Orner's enrapturing essays are refined works of zealous precision, bittersweet imagination, and intrepid candor. COPYRIGHT(2022) Booklist, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. "
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