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Maureen Corrigan

Book Critic, Fresh Air

Maureen Corrigan, book critic for NPR's Fresh Air, is The Nicky and Jamie Grant Distinguished Professor of the Practice in Literary Criticism at Georgetown University. She is an associate editor of and contributor to Mystery and Suspense Writers (Scribner) and the winner of the 1999 Edgar Award for Criticism, presented by the Mystery Writers of America. In 2019, Corrigan was awarded the Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing by the National Book Critics Circle.

Corrigan served as a juror for the 2012 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction. Her book So We Read On: How The Great Gatsby Came To Be and Why It Endures was published by Little, Brown in September 2014. Corrigan is represented by Trinity Ray at The Tuesday Lecture Agency: [email protected]

Corrigan's literary memoir, Leave Me Alone, I'm Reading! was published in 2005. Corrigan is also a reviewer and columnist for The Washington Post 's Book World. In addition to serving on the advisory panel of The American Heritage Dictionary, she has chaired the Mystery and Suspense judges' panel of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize.

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Descendants of a famous poet wrestle with his vexed legacy in 'the wren, the wren'.

September 7, 2023 • An acclaimed Irish poet deserts his sick wife and two young daughters. Anne Enright's new novel centers on the way that betrayal reverberates throughout the next generations.

Monday August 14, 2023

James McBride's 'Heaven & Earth' is an all-American mix of prejudice and hope

August 14, 2023 • Set in a neighborhood where Blacks and immigrant Jews have lived next to each other for decades, The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store is one of the best novels critic Maureen Corrigan has read this year.

James McBride's 'Heaven & Earth' is an all-American mix of prejudice and hope

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The secret to barbie's enduring appeal she can fend for herself.

July 25, 2023 • Maureen Corrigan recalls playing with the iconic doll on the sidewalk in Queens in the 1960s. She says Barbie didn't teach girls to be of service; she taught the giddy pleasures of a seeming autonomy.

Thursday July 20, 2023

Dive in: 'Do Tell' and 'The Stolen Coast' are perfect summer escapes

July 20, 2023 • Lindsay Lynch's luscious debut, Do Tell , is set in Hollywood's Golden Age. Dwyer Murphy's The Stolen Coast is a moody tale of a lawyer who makes his money ferrying people on the run into new lives.

Wednesday July 12, 2023

A lost world comes alive in 'Through the Groves,' a memoir of pre-Disney Florida

July 12, 2023 • Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Anne Hull grew up in the rural interior of Central Florida during the 1960s and '70s. Her memoir evokes a land of perfect citrus, and the cruel costs of its harvest.

Tuesday June 27, 2023

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June 27, 2023 • Ford brings his Frank Bascombe saga to an end in Be Mine , while Moore weaves together a fragmentary Civil War plot with an off-kilter vision of the afterlife in I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home.

Wednesday June 21, 2023

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June 21, 2023 • Brandon Taylor's The Late Americans is a sexually-explicit, cynical novel about young people striving. Such Kindness, by Andre Dubus III, grapples with injury, addiction, masculinity and loneliness.

Wednesday June 7, 2023

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June 7, 2023 • Megan Abbott's Beware the Woman centers on a pregnant newlywed who finds herself isolated in her husband's family cottage. Katie Williams' My Murder is told from the perspective of a murdered woman.

Monday May 22, 2023

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Luis Alberto Urrea pays tribute to WWII's forgotten volunteers — including his mother

May 22, 2023 • The author's mother was a Red Cross volunteer assigned to Patton's 3rd Army — she was with the troops who helped liberate Buchenwald. Urrea's new woman-centered wartime novel is Good Night, Irene.

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When art you love was made by 'Monsters': A critic lays out the 'Fan's Dilemma'

May 10, 2023 • Do geniuses get a "hall pass" for their behavior? Or, do we "cancel" the art of artists who've done "monstrous" things? That's the question Claire Dederer tackles in her new book.

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In 1984, Margaret Thatcher was nearly assassinated — a new book asks, what if?

April 17, 2023 • The IRA planted the bomb at the Grand Hotel, in the seaside resort of Brighton, targeting the British prime minister. There Will Be Fire, by journalist Rory Carroll, reads like a political thriller.

Monday April 10, 2023

A daughter confronts the failures of our health care system in 'A Living Remedy'

April 10, 2023 • Nicole Chung reflects on the deaths of her parents in a powerful new memoir, and how that loss was complicated by class, geographical distance and the pandemic.

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Everything she knew about her wife was false — a faux biography finds the 'truth'

March 28, 2023 • In Catherine Lacey's new genre-bending novel, Biography of X, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist realizes her spouse — a fierce and narcissistic artist — was not who she believed.

Thursday March 16, 2023

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March 16, 2023 • When it came out in 1983, Nora Ephron's comic novel became an instant bestseller. Now newly released, Heartburn pairs well with Jenny Jackson's smart comedy of manners, Pineapple Street.

Wednesday March 1, 2023

Rebecca Makkai's smart, prep school murder novel is self-aware about the 'ick' factor

March 1, 2023 • The thickly-plotted mystery, I Have Some Questions for You, is the latest from the author of The Great Believers. It has been compared to Donna Tartt's 1992 blockbuster, The Secret History.

Tuesday February 14, 2023

Want to be a writer? This bleak but buoyant guide says to get used to rejection

February 14, 2023 • On Writing and Failure isn't your standard meditation on the art and nobility of writing as a profession; instead, author Stephen Marche argues writers should be prepared to fail — again and again.

Tuesday February 7, 2023

A showbiz striver gets one more moment in the spotlight in 'Up With the Sun'

February 7, 2023 • Author Thomas Mallon's sweeping new historical novel captures a slice of gay life in mid-to-late 20th century America as it reimagines the life — and violent death — of B-list actor Dick Kallman.

Thursday January 26, 2023

Classic LA noir meets the #MeToo era in the suspense novel 'Everybody Knows'

January 26, 2023 • Jordan Harper's hardboiled plot centers on a "black-bag publicist" who works for a prestige crisis management firm, putting out fires and quieting scandals for Hollywood's elite.

Friday January 20, 2023

Racism tears a Maine fishing community apart in 'This Other Eden'

January 20, 2023 • In 1912, the 47 residents of Malaga Island were forcibly removed from their small, interracial community. Pulitzer Prize winner Paul Harding fictionalizes the story in a stunning new historical novel.

Friday January 13, 2023

'Sam,' the latest novel from Allegra Goodman, is small, but not simple

January 13, 2023 • The novel follows a white working-class girl from age 7 through her late teens, navigating a world tightly circumscribed by class and culture.

Monday December 12, 2022

Looking for a twist on the whodunit? Two mysteries veer into uncharted territory

December 12, 2022 • A Dangerous Business, by Jane Smiley, is mash-up of a Western, a serial killer mystery and a feminist erotic romp. Remarkably Bright Creatures, by Shelby Van Pelt, is a noir story about an octopus.

Wednesday November 30, 2022

Maureen Corrigan's favorite books of the year: 10 disparate reads for a hectic 2022

November 30, 2022 • Some years, this annual book list falls into a pattern: like stand-out memoirs or dystopian fiction. But 2022 could not be contained, and these titles sprawl all over the place in subject and form.

Tuesday November 22, 2022

Small in scope, claire keegan's 'foster' packs an emotional wallop.

November 22, 2022 • Keegan is a writer who revels in the suspense of the unspoken, the held breath. Her new novella centers on a nameless young girl whose parents leave her in the care of relatives for the summer.

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Author reminds Americans that Samuel Adams was a revolutionary before he was a beer

November 1, 2022 • Adams' historical importance is often overlooked because he didn't keep copies of his own letters. Stacy Schiff's superb new biography explores his crucial role in inciting the American Revolution.

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In 1984, Margaret Thatcher was nearly assassinated — a new book asks, what if?

In a new book called "There Will Be Fire," Irish journalist Rory Carroll investigates the IRA plot to assassinate Margaret Thatcher, a plot that almost succeeded and thus almost changed the course of history.

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Book critic Maureen Corrigan says of this new book that "just when you think you have a handle on Biography of X, it escapes the stack of assumptions where you thought you'd put it."

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Nora Ephron's 1983 novel Heartburn just come out in a 40th anniversary edition. And Jenny Jackson's debut comic novel, Pineapple Street, is a smart comedy of manners.

Rebecca Makkai's smart, prep school murder novel is self-aware about the 'ick' factor

Maureen Corrigan reviews I Have Some Questions for You which she says "is both a thickly-plotted, character-driven mystery and a stylishly self-aware novel of ideas."

Want to be a writer? This bleak but buoyant guide says to get used to rejection

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A showbiz striver gets one more moment in the spotlight in 'Up With the Sun'

Mallon's Up With the Sun is a novel about showbiz strivers and a certain slice of gay life in mid-to-late 20th-century America.

Classic LA noir meets the #MeToo era in the suspense novel 'Everybody Knows'

Book critic Maureen Corrigan says Jordan Harper's new suspense novel is L-A noir at its sleazy, suspensful best.

Racism tears a Maine fishing community apart in 'This Other Eden'

Paul Harding's stunning new novel, This Other Eden, is inspired by the real-life consequences of eugenics on Malaga Island, Maine, which, from roughly the Civil War era to 1912, was home to an interracial fishing community.

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Allegra Goodman says that her new novel, called "Sam," was inspired by her daughter, who, when she was little, was constantly in motion. Goodman wondered what happens to that reckless energy in girls as they grow up. Our book critic, Maureen Corrigan, has a review of "Sam."

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Maureen Corrigan's favorite books of the year: 10 disparate reads for a hectic 2022

Some years, my best books list falls into a pattern: like a year that's dominated by dystopian fiction or stand-out memoirs. But, as perhaps befits this hectic year, the best books I read in 2022 sprawl all over the place in subject and form. Here are 10 superb titles from 2022:

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Some years, my best books list falls into a pattern: like a year that's dominated by dystopian fiction or stand-out memoirs. But, as perhaps befits this hectic year, the best books I read in 2022 sprawl all over the place in subject and form. Here are 10 superb titles from 2022:

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Maureen Corrigan

Maureen Corrigan is one of America’s most trusted and beloved book critics. Her distinctive voice is at once incisive and accessible, like a well-read friend who always sends you home with a good book to read. Upon first meeting Maureen the celebrated novelist Ann Patchett quipped, “...[we] were going to be friends, and once you become friends with a book reviewer they won’t review your books any more. But everybody knows a smart new friend trumps a great review any day.”

For more than twenty years Maureen has been the book critic for NPR’s Fresh Air . She is also a columnist for The Washington Post and The Nicky and Jamie Grant Distinguished Professor of the Practice in Literary Criticism at Georgetown University where her courses are very popular. She is the author of two books of her own; Leave me Alone I’m Reading and So We Read On: How the Great Gatsby Came to Be and Why it Endures , which was named one of the ten best books of the year by Library Journal.

It was Maureen’s father who first inspired her passion for reading. He was an avid reader and she followed in his habits, by her own description a couple of “loner readers.” Maureen later attended graduate school at the University of Pennsylvania and was introduced to the possibility of writing about books when a friend invited her to write a review for the Village Voice. This was a revelatory moment for Maureen who had grown tired of the confines of academic life and found writing about books for a non- scholarly audience “energizing.”

Aside from her writings for the Washington Post and the Village Voice , Maureen has also written reviews for the New York Times , the Boston Globe and The Nation among others. She is an associate editor of and contributor to Mystery and Suspense Writers and the winner of the 1999 Edgar Award for Criticism. In 2012 she served as a juror for the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction.

Maureen Corrigan lives in Washington, D.C. with her husband and daughter. She receives more than 200 books per week to review! Her library, as you might expect, runneth over.

“My own book is my attempt to figure out some of the consequences of my prolonged exposure to books.”

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