Tag: review
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TRoE in The News International
Lara Stapleton’s The Ruin of Everything is reviewed in The News International, Pakistan’s largest English language newspaper! Gratitude to author and book critic Moazzam Sheikh. “In Lara Stapleton’s The Ruin of Everything, stories dealt with issues of bifurcated identities and self-confidence or the lack thereof in the lives of Filipino Americans and how they negotiate…
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Eileen Tabios Engages TROE
“If you could only read one of the nine short stories, “New” makes the release of the entire book worthwhile. And “Flesh and Blood” also passed my key test as not just a reader but a writer: the story made me want to run to my own pen or keyboard to write. The stories are…
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The New York Times’ review of The Ruin of Everything
“The real pleasure of this book lies in Stapleton’s irrepressible approach to The real pleasure of this book lies in Stapleton’s irrepressible approach to narrative structure. Long, loose chains of events culminate in volta-like swerves…. these endings refashion early meanderings in thrilling flashes” Continue reading.
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The Writers Room Spotlights Osterman
Writers Room Executive Director Donna Brodie recently interviewedJeanne-Marie Osterman. What inspired Shellback? And what’s a “shellback”? Continue reading. “My three themes—the love between parent and child, the tragedies of war, and caring for a parent in old age—are themes I think a lot of people can relate to. To help the manuscript hold together, I…
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Alfred Yuson reviews The Ruin of Everything
Award-winning writer and literary critic Alfred A. Yuson reviews Lara Stapleton’s The Ruin of Everything: “…Stapleton appears to have set out to navigate crisscrossing lives by simply allowing the characters, especially the I-persona, to adjudicate between everyday instances of hope and anguish… The navigation is skillfully conducted through shifting maps of loneliness, angst, and the…
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Reader review of The Ruin of Everything
Do you look for faces of people you know when you read? Or do you meander and pause in amusement when you recognize a face in a different name? Do you look for yourself? This collection of short stories by Stapleton — her second — offers more than a dozen characters at the center and…
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