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Meg Wolitzer (born May 28, 1959) is an American novelist, known for The Wife, The Ten-Year Nap, The Uncoupling, The Interestings, and The Female Persuasion. She works as an instructor in the MFA program at Stony Brook Southampton .
Margaret Farrand Thorp (1891–1970) was a writer, English professor, and journalist. Thorp published six books, including five biographies. She is most noted for her 1939 work America at the Movies [1] and her 1949 work Female Persuasion: Six Strong-Minded Women.
The New York Times Book Review (NYTBR) is a weekly paper-magazine supplement to the Sunday edition of The New York Times in which current non-fiction and fiction books are reviewed. It is one of the most influential and widely read book review publications in the industry. [ 2 ]
During the 2000s, she was a senior editor for reviews at Harper's Magazine. [3] Her reviews have also appeared in the London Review of Books, [4] The New Yorker, [5] and many more publications. She started working as the nonfiction critic for the Times in January 2018, [6] after having worked for four years as an editor for The New York Times ...
The Friendly Persuasion (1945) is West's best-known work. The New York Times book reviewer Orville Prescott called it "as fresh and engaging, tender and touching a book as ever was called sentimental by callous wretches... There have been plenty of louder and more insistent books this year, but few as sure and mellow as The Friendly Persuasion ...
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Paul was a contributor to Time magazine and has written for many other publications, including Vogue, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, and Worth.She was a senior editor at the erstwhile magazine American Demographics, [9] and was a London- and New York-based correspondent for The Economist, for which she wrote a monthly arts column from 1997 to 2002, and reviewed film, theater and books. [10]
A quarter-century later, the straightforwardly titled “Modern Persuasion” falls some way short of either benchmark. What it does have going for it is Alicia Witt, a likable, spirited star too ...