Penelope Fitzgerald – Jacke Wilson

November 14, 2014

Authors I Love: Penelope Fitzgerald

I’ve written before about the great Penelope Fitzgerald, an author who I think gets woefully overlooked these days. Which is too bad: I love her beautiful, understated style, her deadpan sense of humor, and sneaky-great themes. You should give her books a try if you haven’t already. But really, why do I like her so much? There are Continue reading

Authors, Fiction, Novellas, Publishing, The Race, Writing

Failure, novellas, Penelope Fitzgerald, short books, The Race

November 16, 2013

Penelope Fitzgerald and Failure (and Free Fiction!)

Still thinking about Penelope Fitzgerald and being drawn to failure. And it made me think of this passage in The Race: A Novella (available now at Amazon.com!), in which the narrator first meets the Governor’s wife: “Who’s he?” Tina said to the Governor in the foyer. “My biographer!” I explained that it was actually an autobiography – Continue reading

Authors, Fiction, Novellas, The Race, Writing

Failure, History, Literary fiction, novella, Penelope Fitzgerald

November 15, 2013

Failure and Penelope Fitzgerald

Oh, good lord. No wonder I love Penelope Fitzgerald so much. Here I thought it was the short length of her novels. Instead it’s the life experience: By that time, in her early sixties, Penelope Fitzgerald was long accustomed to humiliation and, far worse, to catastrophe. Indeed, her late flowering as a novelist of extraordinary Continue reading

Authors, Fiction, Writing

Arts, Fitzgerald, Hermione Lee, Literature, Mark Bostridge, Novel, Penelope Fitzgerald