Topic: Andrew Sean Greer

The Bay Area stage in 2011

0 . Berkeley Repertory Theatre Hip monologist Mike Daisey opens the year with a double-header, a South Pacific tale, "The Last Cargo Cult" (begins...

Special packages need special handling

0 . Kathleen Hartzell of Larkspur has been inspired by the sight of the big blue trucks marked "1-800-GOT-JUNK?," but to me, junk removal is too ...
When I read a review on Andrew Sean Greer's novel The Confessions of Max Tivoli' I knew at once I had to read it, the story is as weird as can be: Greer, born in Washington in 1970, must have lived ...
Sunday evening, the authors Zadie Smith and Andrew Sean Greer-along with their dates, Ms. Smith's husband, Nick Laird, and Mr. Greer's boyfriend, David Ross-gathered in a corner of the Library at the Hudson Hotel, where the Accompanied Literary Society was ...

Home truths

A long time ago in Kentucky, a man took Andrew Sean Greer's grandmother for a drive. He has come not just to tell Pearlie that he and Holland were together during the war (he never, Pearlie notes, uses the word "lovers ...

Andrew Sean Greer

Andrew Sean Greer's third novel, The Story of a Marriage, opens with so simple a variation on the stranger-comes-to-town plot that it's initially difficult to see how its 190-odd pages will get filled. Greer is prone to occasional leaden metaphor ...

Sometimes the Words Get in the Way

" Well, novelist and short story writer Andrew Sean Greer is all too human. In a kind of mid-century Indecent Proposal, he offers to fulfill all of Pearlie's financial dreams if she'll let Holland leave with him forever. It's a ...

Sometimes The Words Get in the Way

" Well, novelist and short story writer Andrew Sean Greer is all too human. In a kind of mid-century Indecent Proposal, he offers to fulfill all of Pearlie's financial dreams if she'll let Holland leave with him forever. It's a ...

Tying the not

In Andrew Sean Greer's best-selling novel The Confessions of Max Tivoli, a man pursues the same woman his entire life, but each time they meet she doesn't recognize him due to a strange condition-he ages in reverse. Speaking from his ...