Reviews were more mixed than for FOC
's previous book, but included some responses from reviewers and friends that that delighted her, notably comments from Joan Didion
and Elizabeth Bishop
.
Gooch, Brad. Flannery. Little, Brown and Co., 2009.
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Textual Production
Zoë Fairbairns
The preface says that the volume does not pretend to offer answers or solutions. Nor does it attempt to promote a particular political position.
Ebersole, Lucinda, and Richard Peabody. “Preface”. Coming to Terms: A Literary Response to Abortion, edited by Lucinda Ebersole and Richard Peabody, The New Press, 1994, p. xiii - xiv.
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It includes a diverse array of writers including Alice Walker
Timeline
1963: The novel Run River, first book by US writer...
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1963
The novel Run River, first book by US writer Joan Didion
(already a journalist), launched a literary career of more than forty years in fiction and essays.
Thomson, David. “What does a snake know, or intend?”. London Review of Books, 18 Mar. 2004, pp. 3-10.
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Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.
7 March 1989: A number of US publishers and writers (including...
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7 March 1989
A number of US publishers and writers (including Joan Didion
and Barbara Goldsmith
) pledged themselves to the use of acid-free paper only.
Baker, Nicholson. Double Fold: Libraries and the Assault on Paper. Random House, 2001.
