Tag: Claire Messud

Book Review: The Woman Upstairs, by Claire Messud

April 30, 2013

“I want to make my nothingness count.” First, I should tell you that Claire Messud and I have a complicated history. To be blunt: I hated her last book, The Emperor’s Children. It made me so angry. Looking back at my review (you can read it here), I see that perhaps a lot of this … More Book Review: The Woman Upstairs, by Claire Messud

Book Review: The Emperor’s Children, by Claire Messud

November 10, 2006

A Narcissist’s Guide to 9/11 In the years since September 11th, 2001 many authors have tried their hands at the 9/11 novel, with all of its delicate subject matter, and thus far they have met with only limited degrees of success: Jonathan Safran Foer, Julia Glass, Wendy Wasserstein, and others have centered novels on the … More Book Review: The Emperor’s Children, by Claire Messud