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 TimesBook Prize. The characters in Ling Ma’s Bliss Montage navigate a slipstream version of Earth as we know it tales of recreational drugs with superpower side effects or foreign lands with strange rituals of rebirth are tempered by sharp and familiar domestic details. Corrigan is also a reviewer and columnist for The Washington Post's Book World. I realize those are an odd assortment of adjectives, but Bliss Montage is a wonderfully odd assortment of short stories.

The collection is a poignant criticism of capitalism, racism, academia, gendered expectations, and the world’s. Corrigan is represented by Trinity Ray at The Tuesday Lecture Agency: literary memoir, Leave Me Alone, I'm Reading! was published in 2005. Reviewed in the United States on SeptemJust as I hoped after enjoying Severance so much, Bliss Montage was full of similar quirky, detached, meandering, thought-provoking amusement. In Bliss Montage, Ma proves herself as an esteemed voice of the 21st century.

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. In 2019, Corrigan was awarded the Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing by the National Book Critics Circle.Ĭorrigan served as a juror for the 2012 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction. 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.

My work has received a Whiting Award, the Kirkus Prize, the NYPL Young Lions Fiction Award, the VCU Cabell First Novelist Award, and an NEA fellowship. 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. About Press Copyright Contact us Creators Advertise Developers Terms Privacy Policy & Safety How YouTube works Test new features NFL Sunday Ticket Press Copyright. I am the author of two books of fiction the novel Severance (2018) and the story collection Bliss Montage (2022), both published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

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