Apr 27, 2011 | Review, Small Change
“Hay brings together in her fourth book the revelatory power of narrative, the analytical possibilities of the personal essay and memoir, the investigative discipline of journalism, and the sudden illumination of lyric, and as a result she seems able to pick up...
Apr 27, 2011 | Review, Small Change
“Tightly sprung stories, beautifully balanced, and eminently re-readable.” —Quill & Quire
Apr 27, 2011 | Review, Small Change
“Compelling …. These linked stories are not so much conventional narratives as unflinching meditations on ambivalent love, the only love worth writing about, as John Updike once said. What readers and even literary jurors are responding to is how close to...
Apr 26, 2011 | A Student of Weather, Alone in the Classroom, Captivity Tales, Crossing the Snow Line, Garbo Laughs, Late Nights on Air, Reader Resources, Small Change, The Only Snow in Havana
1 – How did your first book change your life? I was living in New York City, and shortly before Crossing the Snow Line came out from Black Moss Press, the poet Fred Wah happened to visit me and he warned me not to expect much and he was right. It was a useful...
Apr 26, 2011 | A Student of Weather, Alone in the Classroom, Captivity Tales, Crossing the Snow Line, Garbo Laughs, His Whole Life, Late Nights on Air, Reader Resources, Small Change, The Only Snow in Havana
Elizabeth Hay in Conversation with The New Quarterly Magazine, originally published in spring 2009. The original item is published here with permission of the magazine. Elizabeth Hay – In Conversation With Hannah Albert I began this conversation with Elizabeth...
