Posts Tagged ‘John Irving’
New York Times Op-Ed
The Long, Cruel History of the Anti-Abortion Crusade Amid the anti-abortion measures being pushed through state legislatures, consider the mazy history of abortion in the United States. Women, capable of determining and managing their reproductive rights, have been undermined by men in power before. Prior to the 1840s, abortion was widespread and not illegal in…
Read More‘Ending up here is a love story.’
In 2015, John Irving moved to Toronto permanently, after living part-time in Canada for over 30 years. In 2019, he became eligible to take the oath of citizenship. He is now a dual citizen of the U.S. and Canada. Irving spoke with the Toronto Star, the CBC, and The Washington Post about his late-in-life decision to…
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Read MoreThe Last Chairlift
One of the world’s greatest authors returns with his first novel in seven years—a ghost story and a love story, spanning eight decades of sexual politics.
Read MoreA Third Act – “I’ve finished the second act of my new novel” by John Irving
Dear Readers, I’ve finished the second act of my new novel, Darkness as a Bride. It is a story told in three acts. First draft pages pile up as I progress through the novel – my desk is lined with stacks of paper. I took a photo of the last four hand-written chapters in Act…
Read MoreJohn Irving discusses In One Person
In this video John discusses his thirteenth novel, In One Person, and his bisexual narrator and main character, Billy Abbott. As Billy says: “We are formed by what we desire.”
Read MoreJohn Irving reads from In One Person
“While I say to everyone that I became a writer because I read a certain novel by Charles Dickens at the formative age of fifteen, the truth is I was younger than that when I first met Miss Frost and imagined having sex with her…”
Read MoreJohn Irving introduces Billy Abbott
“If you were, like me, at an all-boys’ boarding school in the fall of 1960, you felt utterly alone—you trusted no one, least of all another boy your age—and you loathed yourself. I’d always been lonely, but self-hatred is worse than loneliness.” — Billy Abbott, from In One Person.
Read MoreIn One Person: Extended Excerpt
Simon and Schuster have included an extended excerpt from In One Person in their free sampler.The books and authors presented in this sampler also include Carry the One by Carol Anshaw, Gold by Chris Cleave, author of Little Bee, In the Shadow of the Banyan by Vaddey Ratner, The Twelve Rooms of the Nile by Enid Shomer, and The Green Shore by Natalie Bakopoulos.
Read MoreInterview with Publishers Weekly
Sexual Outsiders: Three Questions with John Irving. PW caught up with John Irving to discover more about his forthcoming novel, In One Person (S&S, May). The book explores the nature of unfulfilled love through the voice of Billy, the bisexual narrator and main character, who tells the tragicomic story of his life. Your publisher, Jonathan Karp, said that…
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