Category Elizabeth Harrower

James Wood in the New Yorker discovers Elizabeth Harrower

October 14, 2014 · by · in Books, Elizabeth Harrower, essays, interview, Uncategorized · Leave a comment

Congratulations to Elizabeth Harrower for the wonderful feature on her work from James Wood in the New Yorker magazine this week. Here’s our conversation for The Monthly Book from October 2013. And below, my introduction to her wonderful novel The Catherine Wheel, just republished by Text in their Classics series. Playing with Fire by Ramona […]

Elizabeth Harrower’s The Catherine Wheel (now a Text Classic) – my introduction

September 30, 2014 · by · in Books, Elizabeth Harrower, essays, interview, Reviews, The Catherine Wheel, writers · Leave a comment

Playing with Fire by Ramona Koval   One of the great pleasures of my reading life has been the relatively recent discovery of the work of Elizabeth Harrower. I was a child when she was first published, and by the time I was a serious reader she had stopped submitting her work for publication, aside […]