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	Lorrie Moore's Art More Than Life : UVM The View
		Moore writes fluidly and, seemingly, personally — many of her readers, for example, apparently know that she dropped and killed a baby at a picnic (an episode from a story Moore said she couldn't write now that she is a mother) and endured dozens of doomed and bizarre love affairs.
		Moore is an English professor at the University of Wisconsin and she has a young son.
		Moore made light of the unfinished book (with six books published before she turned 40, she's not exactly a slacker), comparing her plight favorably with that of Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling, but during one exchange, she put her plight into a larger and sadder context.
	www.uvm.edu /theview/article.php?id=629 (855 words)

	Lorrie Moore
		He also tells about the feelings Moore has in the stories and how her skill as a writer is "wise and beguiling work" (3).
		Milvy tells you some issues from Moore's earlier work in the beginning of the article about her characters and how they are different from her new work.
		She stated that, "Lorrie Moore is an entertaining, imaginative writer who probes universal preoccupations with insight, humor and inestimable wit." This is the best description of Lorrie Moore's writing in my research.
	ol.scc.spokane.edu /jstrever/lit/litweb/moore.htm (1361 words)

	Metroactive Books \| Lorrie Moore
		But the trick that works for Moore every time, the one that knocks the story out of the park without exception, is the "Moment." Let's pretend just for a second that we're a publication that bestows titles on people.
		When Moore uses it, it comes at the end of a story, and it accounts for a vague feeling of unfinished business, an "is that all there is?" kind of letdown that nonetheless is unmistakably an ending.
		The secret lies in Moore's ethereal exit, the way she slows time, then floats away from a scene of mixed shock and pain with one last impersonal observation.
	www.metroactive.com /papers/metro/12.03.98/cover/lit-moore-9848.html (703 words)

	GradeSaver: Birds of America Essay: One Moore Voice: The Maturing Voice of Lorrie Moore's Characters in Birds of America
		Moore's stories are meant to entertain and just possibly to make readers take a look at what's not quite right in their own lives, and learn to laugh at those imperfections of human life.
		Moore admits her own precarious life experiences, battling her baby's bout with cancer, have changed her outlook on life and given her the ability to stare unblinkingly in the face of death and find something to laugh about.
		The voice of Moore's characters changed in keeping with the author's resilient stance in the face of death, all of them leaving their youth behind, entering the second and often last stages of life, coming face to face with mortality, and sometimes "flipping death the bird" (Blades 32).
	www.gradesaver.com /classicnotes/titles/birds/essay1.html (3232 words)

	Amazon.com: Birds of America: Stories: Books: Lorrie Moore (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Lorrie Moore made her debut in 1985 with Self-Help, which proved that she could write about sadness, sex, and the single girl with as much tenderness--and with considerably more wit--than almost any of her contemporaries.
		Moore's insights into the springs of human conduct, her ability to catch the moment that flips someone from eccentric to unmoored, endow her work with a heartbreaking resonance.
		I greatly admire Lorrie Moore, for her humor, for her style, and for her bravery to explore purely sad and horrible moments with such incredible insight and, often, light.
	www.amazon.com /Birds-America-Stories-Lorrie-Moore/dp/0312241224 (2610 words)

	Ploughshares, the literary journal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		And while Moore’s fiction is renowned for its wit and humor, filled with repartee, pithy one-liners, and wisecracks, she considers the essence of her work to be sad.
		Nicknamed “Lorrie” by her parents, she was born Marie Lorena Moore in 1957 in Glens Falls, New York, a small town in the Adirondacks.
		Moore, the second of four children, remembers her parents as rather strict Protestants, politically minded, and culturally alert.
	www.pshares.org /issues/article.cfm?prmArticleID=4504 (1749 words)

	JoyParisi.com: Long Live Lorrie Moore (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		First, the supporting quote to the argument is from 1985, which could mean that Lorrie Moore has since advanced far beyond her inability to write plots.
		And if we must suppose that the main character is not Lorrie Moore at all, but just another being from Moore's imagination, then perhaps this character's inability to write plot is fictional as well, and only a plausible defect used to make this character likable and human.
		Leading me to a new conclusion that if Lorrie Moore were to write a non-fiction piece on how to become a writer, she would begin with a lesson in plot itself.
	www.joyparisi.com /mtarchives/000092.html (358 words)

	Lorrie Moore - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Lorrie Moore (born Marie Lorena Moore on January 13, 1957 in Glens Falls, New York) is an American fiction writer known mainly for her humorous and poignant short stories.
		Marie Lorena Moore was nicknamed "Lorrie" by her parents.
		After graduating from St. Lawrence, she moved to Manhattan and worked as a paralegal for two years.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lorrie_Moore (360 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Lorrie Moore - Who Will Run the Frog Hospital?: A Novel at Epinions.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Lorrie Moore’s 1994 novel describes a girl’s thirteenth summer as the recollection of the woman in her mid-thirties.
		Moore has obviously thought long and hard about what being a woman means, and it plays a large role in her novel.
		Moore has published many short stories and I venture to say that she should stick with the shorter form.
	www.epinions.com /content_91798539908 (969 words)

	arborweb reviews - review: Lorrie Moore
		Although she has written a couple of novels, Lorrie Moore is best known as a writer of short stories populated with the middle-aged and the middle-class, with lawyers and businessmen and college professors — along with the occasional house painter.
		Moore's success lies in her ability to draw us into what are — for the most part — the minor dramas that transform these lives.
		Lorrie Moore reads from her fiction at the U-M business school on Thursday, January 23.
	www.arborweb.com /reviews/0301.lorriemoore-review.html (426 words)

	Salon Books \| Moore's better blues
		Moore's gifts were apparent from her first story collection, "Self-Help" (1985), a book she wrote while enrolled in the Cornell M.F.A. program.
		Moore acknowledges a slight autobiographical element in the story but says she was not writing a memoir.
		Moore spoke with Salon about that story and many other subjects -- the perils of academic satire, the difficulties of writing while child rearing, why she's fearing her upcoming trip to the U.K. -- in the New York offices of Knopf, her publisher.
	www.salon.com /books/int/1998/10/cov_27int.html (2131 words)

	Lorrie Moore scores with a new turn (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		These new stories sparkle; they are keenly and poignantly mindful of the idioms, banalities and canards of contemporary American society, and they hum with Moore's earmark droll and incisive banter, her astonishing ability to render the intricacy of character in a few sharply focused details.
		Moore's metaphors are opulent, even shocking in their power to surprise.
		Moore's work has long been noted for its mordant and wily observations about the inanity of human desires and behavior, but the stories that make up this collection seem to take an indirect step in a fresh direction, striking a balance between the absurdity of modern life and the moral dimension of human experience.
	www.chron.com /content/chronicle/ae/books/9899/09/27/moore.html (1463 words)

	PW: Lorrie Moore: Flipping Death the Bird - 8/24/1998 - Publishers Weekly
		Moore can be hilarious on the page (so hilarious that her one-liners and epigrams could be compiled into a mid-sized "wit-and-wisdom-of" collection).
		A confessed "shy person," Moore is friendly and forthcoming enough about her work but cautious about her private life, preferring to meet PW at a coffee house rather than at her home, and adamantly discouraging all autobiographical readings of her fiction.
		At Cornell, Moore wrote a series of what she calls "mock-imperative narratives," counseling readers on "How to Be an Other Woman," "How to Talk to Your Mother..." and simply, "How." Impressed by Moore's efforts, Lurie recommended her to her agent, Melanie Jackson, who became the first of two long-lasting alliances, rare in contemporary publishing.
	www.publishersweekly.com /index.asp?layout=article&articleid=CA165969&publication=publishersweekly (1902 words)

	Seattle Arts & Lectures - Lorrie Moore
		Lorrie Moore’s short story "How to Become a Writer" begins: "First, try to be something, anything, else." Fortunately, Moore did not take her own advice.
		Born Marie Lorena Moore in 1957, in Glens Falls, New York, she was nicknamed "Lorrie" by her parents.
		One of Moore’s teachers at Cornell, Alison Lurie, had mentioned that her agent, Melanie Jackson, was looking for clients.
	www.lectures.org /moore.html (815 words)

	Lorrie Moore: The Barbarian Within
		Lorrie Moore feels that gaps between people, and not loneliness, are particular qualities of her stories.
		There is confinement: Sanatoriums for tubercular recovery, hospices for those dying of cancer, insane asylums for the depressed and severely melancholy; a taking of the sick out of the mainstream, out of the dailiness of their lives as a cure.
		The psychic voyage is undertaken by Moore's characters not necessarily to be cured in all cases, but to be reborn, to be able to come to terms with one's old life, and replace it with a new (and sometimes philosophical) outlook.
	www.critiquemagazine.com /article/moore.html (6113 words)

	Cup of Chicha: Yesterday, 40 MFA students locked Lorrie Moore inside a basement and prodded her with long, pointed ...
		Cup of Chicha: Yesterday, 40 MFA students locked Lorrie Moore inside a basement and prodded her with long, pointed questions.
		Yesterday, 40 MFA students locked Lorrie Moore inside a basement and prodded her with long, pointed questions.
		Moore mentions that she recently had to retype some paragraphs by Updike for use as quotes in a review.
	www.nchicha.com /cupofchicha/archives/002076.shtml (2089 words)

	Fiction: Lorrie Moore
		A 1998 interview with Moore upon publication of her collection, Birds of America.
		As the title of the book suggests, several of the humorous stories, such as "How to Become a Writer," were narrated in what Moore calls, "second person, mock-imperative" voices as she parodied the self-improvement manuals popular with American readers.
		In the book Moore included sketches to cover various situations—"The Kid's Guide to Divorce," "How to Talk to Your Mother," "How to Be an Other Woman." Her most recent collection of stories is Birds of America (1998).
	www.bedfordstmartins.com /litlinks/fiction/moore.htm (175 words)

	Featured Author: Lorrie Moore
		Moore's writing -- the accuracy of her observations, the lyricism of many of her descriptions and the wry view of behavior wryly expressed -- that prevents these stories about mostly unhappy people from ever being grim or maudlin."
		"Moore has never been the glitziest writer of her generation, but she may be the most astute and lasting.
		Moore says that Simon & Schuster's last-minute rejection of Bret Easton Ellis's novel "American Psycho," with its depiction of violence against women, was clumsy, but not "censorship," as some critics had charged.
	partners.nytimes.com /books/98/09/20/specials/moore.html (291 words)

	NCW--Lorrie Moore (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Lorrie Moore was born in Glen Falls, New York on January 13, 1957.
		She is currently Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin at Madison where she also lives with her husband and son.
		Lorrie Moore has been the recipient of the National Endowment for the Arts award in 1989, the Rockefeller Foundation fellowship in 1989, and the Guggenheim fellowship in 1991.
	mockingbird.creighton.edu /NCW/lmoore.htm (163 words)

	Lorrie Moore Reads At UI April 2 - University News Service - The University of Iowa
		Fiction writer Lorrie Moore, a guest of the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop, will read from her work at 8 p.m.
		Moore's most recent book is "Like Life: Stories," which a New York Times review described as "insightful and moving.
		Moore's other books of fiction are "Birds of America," "Anagrams," "Self Help: Stories" and "Who Will Run the Frog Hospital." She is the editor of "I Know Some Things: Stories About Childhood by Contemporary Writers" and "The Faber Book of Contemporary Stories About Childhood."
	itsnt166.iowa.uiowa.edu /uns-archives/2004/march/031904moore-reads.html (311 words)

	Lorrie Moore books reviews
		Moore's second short story collection (apart from the novel-esque _Anagrams_) is more subdued, less tricky and perky than _Self-Help_.
		This was Lorrie Moore's debut collection of stories (1985), and what a fine set of tales it is. "How to Be an Other Woman" starts it off with a bang, instructing the reader what one does and how one feels in that position.
		Lorrie Moore's novel is a coming of age comedy of errors, about two best friends, Berie and Sils, and their fateful summer of lost innocence in 1972.
	www.allreaders.com /Topics/Topic_4192.asp (282 words)

	Literary Encyclopedia: Lorrie Moore
		American writer Lorrie Moore has achieved recognition as one of the most powerful storytellers of her generation.
		Moore earned a Regents scholarship and attended St. Lawrence University where she majored in English, edited the literary journal and received the Paul L. Wolfe Memorial Prize for literature.
		It is one of Moore’s most unified collections; six of the stories are narrated in the second-person, adopting what Moore terms the “mock-imperative” voice of self-help guides.
	www.litencyc.com /php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=11691 (637 words)

	Pindeldyboz: Lorrie Moore Destroying Relationships by Tao Lin
		I didn't say it, but I was thinking that I read everything by Lorrie Moore after reading her one story, and she, I knew, did not read anything else by Lorrie Moore.
		Some time later, a classmate of mine saw me with "Anagrams." (Lorrie Moore's first novel) I showed her the scene where Benna is offered up to the ceiling.
		Most recently, I bought my brother "Like Life." (Lorrie Moore's second short story collection) We have the same sense of humor so I was sure he'd enjoy "Like Life." We were home for Christmas at our parent's house.
	www.pindeldyboz.com /tllorrie.htm (655 words)

	Good Books Lately \| Birds of America \| Lorrie Moore (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		We see these quirky characters first from a distance, then Moore swoops down, and suddenly we share their odd point of view.
		Moore weaves various images of birds through these stories effortlessly, sometimes with such subtlety we almost miss them the first time around.
		It is remarkable that Moore writes from so many different points of view and manages to make each of them as engaging and authentic as the next.
	www.goodbookslately.com /recommendedbooks/books/birdsofamerica.shtml (157 words)

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	The Rea Award for the Short Story - Lorrie Moore (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Lorrie Moore’s stories are gifts, for her hard won, no doubt, but for her readers, pure pleasure.”
		Lorrie Moore’s first collection of short stories, Self Help, was published in 1985, producing reviews comparing her to everyone from Grace Paley to Woody Allen.
		Lorrie Moore has been the recipient of a Lannan Foundation Fellowship, The National Endowment of the Arts Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, The Irish Times International Prize for Fiction and a Literature Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
	www.reaaward.org /Moore/Moore.html (429 words)

	The Radicalendar: Lorrie Moore Reading
		Award-winning fiction writer LORRIE MOORE, author of Birds of America, Who Will Run the Frog Hospital, Like Life, Anagrams, and Self-Help will read her work.
		Lorrie Moore is a Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
		Lorrie Moore's visit to Brandeis is sponsored by a Poses Funding grant and by the English/Creative Writing Department.
	www.radicalendar.org /calendar/bostonimc/all/display/22942/index.php?view=event&fulldate=2005-03-23 (103 words)

	Like Life - Wal-Mart
		Lorrie Moore is among the most beloved of contemporary writers.
		Moore's characters, unsettled and adrift, aren't quite sure how they've fallen into their present lives.
		Harry has been reworking a play for years in his apartment near Times Square in New York; Jane is biding her time at a cheese shop in a Midwestern mall; Dennis, unhappily divorced, buries himself in self-help books about health food and relationships.
	www.walmart.com /catalog/product.gsp?product_id=1876314 (555 words)

	The Believer - Interview with Lorrie Moore
		Moore’s hallmark has become the inextricability of humor and pathos, which she explores with rare understanding.
		Moore holds the Delmore Schwartz Professorship in the Humanities at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, where she has taught English and writing for two decades.
		LORRIE MOORE: I came to writing out of various sensitivities, plus a love of art and literature, and a capacity for solitude.
	www.believermag.com /issues/200510/?read=interview_moore (3579 words)

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