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Anthony's third book, a work of nonfiction titled Four Seasons in Rome: On Twins, Insomnia, and the Biggest Funeral in the History of the World, will be published by Scribner in June. It's about writing, the fanfare surrounding the death of Pope John Paul II, defamiliarization, the ancient Roman naturalist Pliny the Elder, and being a parent of newborn twins in Italy, where you can't push a stroller twenty feet without someone stopping to tell you how beautiful your baby is. |
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A brand new short story, "Procreate, Generate," will be published in Granta 97, The Best of Young American Novelists 2, in April. You can read more about Granta's newest list of the 20 "best" young writers here. |
Doerr
has a long essay on memory, travel, and Alice Munro in the Winter Reading
issue of Tin
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The
Shell Collector has
just been published in German by
C.H. Beck Verlag, translated by Barbara Rojahn-Deyk. |
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A
brand new Anthony Doerr story, "Village 113", appears in the
'Summer Reading' issue of the literary magazine Tin
House. It's about the inundation of a rural village by a massive
hydroelectric project. |
From
Sherwood Anderson to James Thurber, Ohio has had an undeniably rich literary
tradition, but the Buckeye State also claims plenty of renowned contemporary
writers, too. In Good
Roots: Writers Reflect on Growing up in Ohio, Lisa Watts and
The Ohio University Press have assembled some of the best, from P.J.
O'Rourke to Susan Orlean to Mary Oliver to Dan Cryer, and it includes
a brand-new essay from Anthony Doerr on memory. Available in November. |
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Find
links to a variety of Doerr's essays on The
Morning News here,
including the
mildly-popular letter from Rome about the loss of the Pope John Paul. |
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Doerr's
novel, About Grace, is available in several languages and with
all sorts of different-looking covers. You can read more about the novel
here. |
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If you're looking for something to read in the sand, the tub, or shower, check out The Beach Book, which contains Doerr's story "The Shell Collector," alongside Eugenides' classic "Air Mail", and stories by Marquez, Isaac Bashevis Singer, and six others. Plus, it's completely waterproof. |
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Doerr's story "The Caretaker" is part of The Anchor Book of New American Short Stories, edited by Ben Marcus. This is an extremely interesting book, as stylistically and structurally variable as any anthology out there. As Marcus writes in his intro, "These stories could be projected by megaphone onto an empty field and people would grow there." Order a copy here. |
Doerr
also has a couple entries in McSweeney's Future
Dictionary of America, a guide to the American language sometime
in the future, when all or most of our country's problems are solved.
The book includes contributions from almost 200 writers, including Kurt
Vonnegut, Stephen King, Michael Chabon, Joyce Carol Oates, and plenty
more. |
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| In a year-end People magazine interview with George and Laura Bush, the First Lady says she keeps The Shell Collector on her White House nightstand. |  |
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A couple years ago, Doerr wrote the introduction to Sean Kernan's glorious book of photographs, Among Trees. His website just keeps getting cooler. Check out many of the Among Trees photographs there, or order the book here. |
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