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I spend a lot, a lot, a lot of time on the Web.

~Cathleen Schine

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I do all my shopping on the Web. I do much of my research online. I have a blog, too. It is definitely a distraction. It is definitely a blessing. What blessing isn't a distraction, though?

~Cathleen Schine

Topics: Blessing Blog Definitely Distraction Much Online Research Shopping Though Too Web

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Everyone who moves to New York City has a book or movie or song that epitomizes the place for them. For me, it's 'The Cricket in Times Square', written by George Selden and illustrated by Garth Williams.

~Cathleen Schine

Topics: Book City Cricket Everyone George Illustrated Me Moves Movie New New York New York City Place Song Square Them Times Times Square Who Williams Written York

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In 'Pictures from an Institution,' Randall Jarrell was able to transcend the academic novel by simply ignoring it, writing a comedy with no plot at all beyond his own pleasure in language and humanity itself.

~Cathleen Schine

Topics: Able Academic Beyond Comedy His Humanity Ignoring Institution Itself Language Novel Own Pictures Pleasure Plot Simply Transcend Writing

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I grew up reading books about heroic collies.

~Cathleen Schine

Topics: About Books Grew Heroic Reading Reading Books Up

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I do not go out to dinner or to the movies with the neighbors, as I do with my friends. I don't make dates with them. I don't have to.

~Cathleen Schine

Topics: Dates Dinner Friends Go Make Movies Neighbors Out Them

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There are no moral lectures in 'Lookaway, Lookaway;' there aren't even any lessons. But there is passion. It is a work that hides its craft but never its beauty, that is ambitious but never pretentious, that does not sacrifice nuance for power or power for nuance.

~Cathleen Schine

Topics: Ambitious Any Beauty Craft Does Even Hides Lectures Lessons Moral Never Nuance Passion Power Pretentious Sacrifice Work

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Alice Munro is not only revered, she is cherished, her stories handled lovingly, turned over and over, gazed at and studied and breathed in with something approaching awe. She has never, over the years, written the way any of her contemporaries have.

~Cathleen Schine

Topics: Alice Any Approaching Awe Breathed Cherished Contemporaries Handled Her Lovingly Never Only Over Revered She Something Stories Studied Turned Way Written Years

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Michael Chabon has long moved easily between the playful, heartfelt realism of novels like 'The Mysteries of Pittsburgh' and 'Wonder Boys' and his playful, heartfelt, more fantastical novels like 'The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay' and 'The Yiddish Policemen's Union.'

~Cathleen Schine

Topics: Adventures Amazing Between Boy Clay Easily Heartfelt His Like Long Michael More Moved Mysteries Novels Pittsburgh Playful Policemen Realism Union Wonder

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'Blue Nights' is a story of loss: simple, wrenching, inconsolable loss.

~Cathleen Schine

Topics: Blue Loss Nights Simple Story

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: Unknown

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