The Latest Breaking News from Lorrie Moore

Saba Sams: ‘I’ve no interest in reading Wuthering Heights again’

The Send Nudes author on rereading Lorrie Moore, finding Dodie Smith at the right time, and the enduring brilliance of Muriel Spark

The Guardian - UK · Mar 6

The Guide #220: The best things we watched, read and listened to this year – that weren’t from 2025

We revisit forgotten noirs, rediscovered albums and retro games that stole the year

The Guardian - UK · Dec 5, 2025

Cartoonist Roz Chast to be honored at the Brooklyn Book Festival, which runs from Sept. 22-30

Lorrie Moore, Attica Locke and Edwidge Danticat will be among hundreds of writers attending this September’s Brooklyn Book Festival, for years one of the literary world’s most anticipated gatherings

The Independent UK · Jul 24, 2024

Review: In Lorrie Moore's latest, brothers look back on the memories that made them

FICTION: Moore's latest novel explores the joy of siblinghood and the enormity of death without a flicker of sentimentality.

Tribune News Service · Jun 21, 2023

Book Review: Lorrie Moore brings her maximalist wordplay to a macabre exploration of love and death

Lorrie Moore is best known for her short stories, but her latest work is a novel set in the 19th and 21st centuries

The Independent UK · Jun 20, 2023

Update your beach read: 52 books for summer 2023, with some themes in mind

Let’s try something new this summer.

Chicago Tribune · Jun 14, 2023

I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home by Lorrie Moore review – bringing out the dead

A teacher hits the road with his lover’s corpse in the American’s droll, philosophical fourth novel, a triumph of tone and imagination

The Guardian - UK · Jun 12, 2023

Lorrie Moore: ‘I’m just cruel. What can I tell you?’

The cult US author talks about losing her father during the pandemic, deadpan comedy – and why she wrote her long-awaited new novel in secret

The Guardian - UK · Jun 10, 2023

Friday essay: empathy or division? On the science and politics of storytelling

Writers can’t always be trusted when they talk about the power and importance of story. We have a vested interest and can get sentimental, promoting the immense power of story, of narrative, as inherently benign.

The Conversation · Apr 7, 2022