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Waiting for the End examines two dozen contemporary novels as demonstrations of the continuing concern with the gender of ending in narrative. Traditional concepts of the role of ending came under question in the later twentieth century, as feminists began to argue that the structure of "rising action" and "climax" was patently masculinist. The effort to theorize alternatives to that structure was echoed by contemporary novelists, male as well as female, who sought to complicate conventional notions of ending. Often those complications of ending(s) have spoken to a growing awareness that ending in narrative is artificial and that plot structure and ending need to make gestures toward the reader's sense that while narrative may end, what narrative attempts to represent will always evade the artifice of fiction.

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Lawrence Durrell: Conversations contains over thirty of the one hundred or more interviews in which Durrell participated during the last thirty-five years of his life. Many of these interviews are `celebrity’ interviews that grew out of his need to help publicize his writing. The collection of interviews also contains a number of `literary’ interviews in which academics in literature ask Durrell questions about his novels, poems, and travel books.

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Conversations with Colum McCann brings together eighteen interviews with a world-renowned fiction writer. Ranging from his 1994 literary debut, Fishing the Sloe-Black River, to a previously unpublished interview conducted in 2016, these interviews represent the development as well as the continuation of McCann's interests. The number and length of the later conversations attest to his star-power. Let the Great World Spin earned him the National Book Award and promises to become a major motion picture. His most recent novel, TransAtlantic, has awed readers with its dynamic yoking of the 1845-46 visit of Frederick Douglass to Ireland, the 1919 first nonstop transatlantic flight of Alcock and Brown, and Senator George Mitchell's 1998 efforts to achieve a peace accord in Northern Ireland. An extensive interview by scholar Cécile Maudet is included here, as is an interview by John Cusatis, who wrote Understanding Colum McCann, the first extensive critical analysis of McCann's work.An author who actually enjoys talking about his work, McCann (b. 1965) offers insights into his method of writing, what he hopes to achieve, as well as the challenge of writing each novel to go beyond his accomplishments in the novel before. Readers will note how many of his responses include stories in which he himself is the object of the humor and how often his remarks reveal insights into his character as a man who sees the grittiness of the urban landscape but never loses faith in the strength of ordinary people and their capacity to prevail.

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"Terra Incognita": D. H. Lawrence at the Frontiers consists of nine essays by scholars from five countries. They show how Lawrence explored the "terra incognita" not only of geography but also of consciousness and human relations. The 1920s emerge as a watershed in his work. These essays present the first criticism to utilize new texts and research in the final prose volumes of the Cambridge Lawrence Edition. This includes all the essays Lawrence wrote in America about Southwestern and Mexican Indians (Mornings in Mexico and Other Essays, 2009). Authors are Michael Hollington, Paul Poplawski, Judith Ruderman, Edina Pereira Crunfli, Jack Stewart, Keith Cushman, Tina Ferris, Julianne Newmark, and Hyde. Color illustrations are by Lawrence, Georgia O'Keeffe, and Dorothy Brett. The book will interest both general readers and scholars of Lawrence and twentieth-century literature.

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