Le Guin finds feminine side to epic ‘Aeneid’
By Tricia Snell / Special to The Oregonian, Apr. 20, 2008.
Everyone could use a forest of Albunea, a place where dreams, ghosts, owls, oracles and ancestors offer hints about your fate and advice about difficult decisions…
Full Text →A juicy bit of cyber-gothic-mystery-romance
By Tricia Snell / Special to The Oregonian, Apr. 6, 2008.
I consumed many cups of tea and slices of toast while reading Karen Joy Fowler’s new novel, “Whit’s End.” …
Full Text →Zuckerman confronts his decline
By Tricia Snell / Special to The Oregonian, Oct. 21, 2007.
The novel “Exit Ghost,” Philip Roth’s 28th book (and the ninth in his Nathan Zuckerman series), brings to mind Yeats’ opening lines to “The Tower” …
Full Text →News of daughter’s survival sparks harrowing journey
By Tricia Snell / Special to The Oregonian, Sept. 23, 2007.
Amy Bloom’s brimming-with-spit-and-fire fifth book, “Away,” is the kind of novel that makes you miss your bus stop or forget to eat…
Full Text →Author’s prose is worth the pain of a hard look at despair
By Tricia Snell / Special to The Oregonian, Aug. 12, 2007.
Despair snakes through “Red Rover,” Deirdre McNamer’s frightening but beautifully evoked fourth novel that examines the pain, disappointments and betrayals of wartime…
Full Text →A passionate belief in the redeeming power of art underpins ‘Life Studies’
By Tricia Snell / Special to The Oregonian, Jan. 9, 2005.
Amy Bloom’s brimming-with-spit-and-fire fifth book, “Away,” is the kind of novel that makes you miss your bus stop or forget to eat…
Full Text →Treading deadly water: Falls and the Love Canal engulf Joyce Carol Oates’ protagonists
By Tricia Snell / Special to The Oregonian, Oct., 2004.
When Joyce Carol Oates was 7 years old, she witnessed a dead, bloated body being pulled out of the Erie Canal on a hook…
Full Text →Kimmel sharpens her cue, racks up a winner
By Tricia Snell / Special to The Oregonian, Feb. 1, 2004.
Haven Kimmel’s first book was the very popular (No. 1 on The New York Times best seller list) memoir “A Girl Named Zippy.” …
Full Text →Drawing the line on genetic engineering
By Tricia Snell / Special to The Oregonian, Apr. 28, 2003.
Imagine the attributes you would claim for yourself, if you had the opportunity to edit your DNA…
Full Text →Hay-on-Wye: A bookish Welsh hamlet offers one Yank a bounty of eccentricity and anecdotes
By Tricia Snell / Special to The Oregonian, Apr. 6, 2003.
Hay-on-Wye, a Welsh town of 1,500 on the border of England, is a bibliophile’s mecca, boasting 40 bookstores, one for every 37 1/2 inhabitants…
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