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a heart in exile; A wry Irish-born writer's stories rediscovered.('Maeve Brennan: Homesick at The New Yorker' by Angela Bourke)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
The mid-century writer Maeve Brennan was outwardly glamorous and refined-"To be around her was to see style being invented," her dear friend William Maxwell once remembered. But at heart Brennan was a lifelong itinerant, in her own words a "traveler in residence." She moved from Dublin to America as a teenager, when her father was appointed the first Irish ambassador, and in 1941 left Washington, D.C. for New York. For the next 50 years (five of which she spent married) she moved in and out of hotel rooms, country guest houses, and temporary apartments, and from this solitary perch recounted what she saw.
In time, more than 50 wry, melancholic dispatches from the "The Long-Winded Lady," as she was known, appeared in The New Yorker, inspiring deep admiration in her peers (John Updike claimed she put New York back in The New Yorker), though never gaining her a wider celebrity. Now, as her literary revival reaches its apex, Irish scholar Angela Bourke illustrates in her engrossing and ...
- A long gaze back.(Maeve Brennan: Homesick at the New Yorker)(Book Review)
- Magazine article from: Irish Literary Supplement Eyler, Audrey S. March 22, 2005 700+ words
MAEVE BRENNAN Homesick at the New Yorker Angela Bourke New York: Counterpoint, 2004, $25.00 WRITER MAEVE BRENNAN (1917-1993) gives Angela Bourke...Dublin, the setting for many of her New Yorker fictions. These stories, though...
- Angela Bourke, Maeve Brennan: Homesick at the 'New Yorker'.(Book Review)
- Magazine article from: Irish University Review: a journal of Irish Studies Coughlan, Patricia September 22, 2004 700+ words
Angela Bourke, Maeve Brennan: Homesick at the 'New Yorker'. London: Jonathan Cape...has been growing interest in Maeve Brennan. Angela Bourke's intelligent...class suburban Dublin milieu. Maeve Brennan is a writer of decor and of...
- Monday books: Girlhood tales of suburban Dublin; The Springs of Affection by...
- Newspaper article from: The News Letter (Belfast, Northern Ireland) Greenaway, Heather September 4, 2000 700+ words
...by the acclaimed short story writer, Maeve Brennan. The Springs of Affection collects all...take her far from her own front room. Maeve Brennan, who spent 20 years on the staff of The New Yorker, left Ireland for the United States...
- Maeve Brennan: The Rose Garden.(Review)
- Magazine article from: World of Hibernia Boland, John September 22, 2000 700+ words
...and they constitute Maeve Brennan's enduring and unique...first published in The New Yorker, as indeed was almost...wrote--she was a New Yorker staff writer for more...humanity that makes Maeve Brennan one of the great, if...
- Maeve Brennan.(Brief Article)
- Magazine article from: World of Hibernia September 22, 2000 700+ words
...ladies' toilet in the New Yorker, venturing out to abuse...suburb of Ranelagh, Maeve Brennan was the second of four...the attention of the New Yorker's legendary editor...all published in the New Yorker and remain notable for...
- A gift for setting scenes; Brennan proves masterful at evoking time and place;...
- Newspaper article from: The Boston Herald Alcorn, Alfred January 16, 2000 700+ words
Maeve Brennan's fiction suffers from faults that...down the book. Brennan wrote for The New Yorker and published most of the stories in...McKelway, the managing editor of The New Yorker. She knows the territory. With wicked...
- BIOGRAPHY; New Yorker writer remains an elusive subject.(ENTERTAINMENT)(Book...
- Newspaper article from: Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN) Carter, Emily October 31, 2004 700+ words
...writer and journalist Maeve Brennan (1917-1993) peers...as her editor at the New Yorker once remarked, "was...Gets Some." BIOGRAPHY Maeve Brennan By: Angela Bourke...chantlike prose of the New Yorker writer.
- The New Yorker Entrusts 81 Years of Content to Hitachi Hard Drives.
- Press release article from: Business Wire November 8, 2006 700+ words
...Searchable, Pocket-Sized Access to "The Complete New Yorker" Digital Archives SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Hitachi...been selected to deliver 81 years worth of The New Yorker content. "The Complete New Yorker" will be available to consumers on a handheld...
