Alice Mcdermott's Reading List

"the original is more complex, more overwrought and more harrowing than popular culture had led me to believe."

"the original is more complex, more overwrought and more harrowing than popular culture had led me to believe."

"Randall Kenan's collection is full of delights: music, food, flight, sorrow and laughter, a very gentle laughter."

"The novel's hapless protagonist has set his hopes for a new life on a windshield repair kit that he believes will launch him into the heady ranks of the gainfully self-employed."

"Jazzmen like Bill Evans and Miles Davis are masters of the ostinato, the repeated phrase or theme."

"I laugh at the silliest lines in Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead absolutely every time."

"I read the play for the umpteenth time. And got to Lear's Never, never, never, never, never. And yes, the play on the page can still make you cry."