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Alice McDermott Is Not Interested in Irish-Americans
“Friends and strangers come up to me on the street,” Alice McDermott tells Kurt Andersen, “and say, ‘Oh, you’re writing another novel. Is this another one about Irish-Americans where somebody dies?’”...
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This week in Studio 360, two contrarian takes on black history. Jeffrey Wright is stealing this season of Boardwalk Empire as a black empowerment leader who sidelines as a murderous gangster. And in...
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Alice McDermott talks about her latest novel, Someone . It’s about an ordinary life—its pains and joys, its clarity and confusion—lived by an ordinary woman from Brooklyn, and her recollections of...
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Alice McDermott's Charming Billy
Alice McDermott's 1998 novel Charming Billy won the National Book Award for fiction. It's about first love, buried secrets, and the life of an Irish American drinker in Queens. Family and friends...
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