Barnard alum on cover of NYT Book Review

columbia2007 · 08-13-2006, 02:17 PM

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/13/bo...w/13cover.html

Another in a great line of Barnard writers.

primefactor · 08-17-2006, 10:17 PM

I'll have to pick that up...

My own personal rank of Barnard authors I've read:
Sigrid Nunez
Ann Brashares (young books, but not dumb in the least)
Edwidge Danticat
Jhumpa Lahiri
Erica Jong
Mary Gordon
Anna Quindlen

(honestly, I think Anna Quindlen is TOTALLY overrated)
I've heard Cristina Garcia is really good, too. Anyone have any Barnard author thoughts?

I need a next book.

churchmusicmom · 08-18-2006, 06:33 AM

I have to agree with you about Quindlen. I have nothing pithy to add other than I am VERY glad to see you back on these boards and to wish you the very best in grad school!!!

primefactor · 08-19-2006, 06:43 PM

Okay, read Monkey Hunting, and now have to add Christina Garcia to near the top of the list. I'll give her an official ranking after I read her other two novels.

Thanks, churchmusicmom! I passed my generals, and got an RA job with a prof I love, so things are going well. :-D

columbia2007 · 08-21-2006, 01:42 PM

More publicity for Ms. Pessl. Turns out she was a transfer from Northwestern and views the Great Books as a "rite of passage":

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/21/books/21pess.html

primefactor · 08-21-2006, 04:31 PM

xfers represent, y'all. Some of Barnard's best students and most famous alums were transfers. Like me! :-D

Denzera · 08-22-2006, 10:16 AM

in your list of authors, i wouldn't leave out Zora Neale Hurston.

she's kinda a big deal

primefactor · 08-22-2006, 07:11 PM

I can't read her, though. I've tried, but I HATE anything in the vernacular. It's sad, because I love most of the themes of southern literature, but I have to stick with people like Dorothy Allison instead of William Faulkner.

Though I have issues with Faulkner besides that...

Edit: And she was a fellow Floridian, which makes me wish even more to like her. And invented "cool."