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1) A year at the races: reflections on horses, humans, love, money & luck

Author

Smiley, Jane

Publisher

Knopf

Pub. Date

2004.

Language

English

2) The questions that matter most: reading, writing, and the exercise of freedom

Author

Smiley, Jane

Publisher

Heyday

Pub. Date

[2023]

Language

English

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"Essays that show how Smiley draws inspiration from across literary history to invigorate her own writing. Among the authors she examines are Marguerite de Navarre, Charles Dickens, Anthony Trollope, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Louisa May Alcott, Mark Twain, Willa Cather, Franz Kafka, Halldor Laxness, and Jessica Mitford"--

3) March sisters: on life, death, and Little women

Author

Bolick, Kate

Publisher

The Library of America

Pub. Date

2019.

Language

English

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On its 150th anniversary, four acclaimed authors offer personal reflections on their lifelong engagement with Louisa May Alcott's classic novel of girlhood and growing up. For the 150th anniversary of the publication of Louisa May Alcott's Little Women, Kate Bolick, Jenny Zhang, Carmen Maria Machado, and Jane Smiley explore their strong lifelong personal engagement with Alcott's novel--what it has meant to them and why it still matters. Each takes...