Am I Alone Here?: Notes on Living to Read and Reading to Live By Peter Orner

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This National Book Critics Circle Award is “an entrancing attempt to catch what falls between: the irreducibly personal, messy, even embarrassing ways reading and living bleed into each other, which neither literary criticism nor autobiography ever quite acknowledges" (The New York Times). “Stories, both my own and those I’ve taken to heart, make up whoever it is that I’ve become,” Peter Orner writes in this collection of essays about reading, writing, and living. Orner reads and writes everywhere he finds himself: a hospital cafeteria, a coffee shop in Albania, or a crowded bus in Haiti. The result is a book of unlearned meditations that stumbles into memoir.Among the many writers Orner addresses are Isaac Babel and Zora Neale Hurston, both of whom told their truths and were silenced; Franz Kafka, who professed loneliness but craved connection; Robert Walser, who spent the last twenty-three years of his life in a Swiss insane asylum, working at being crazy; and Juan Rulfo, who practiced the difficult art of silence. Virginia Woolf, Eudora Welty, Yasunari Kawabata, Saul Bellow, Mavis Gallant, John Edgar Wideman, William Trevor, and Václav Havel make appearances, as well as the poet Herbert Morris--about whom almost nothing is known.An elegy for an eccentric late father, and the end of a marriage, Am I Alone Here? is also a celebration of the possibility of renewal. At once personal and panoramic, this book will inspire readers to return to the essential stories of their own lives.

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I absolutely adored this book.One thing, it gave me a reading list.Another thing, its author, Peter Orner, made the point behind a Turgenev story clear, which I had read and didn't quite understand when I was fifteen. That was more than fifty years ago.In addition, I like to read books about authors writing about other authors' stories.Plus, his chatty, sincere and personal way of talking about his reading has impressed me greatly.Then, this book mostly concentrates on short stories.Most author-on-author books I read earlier focused on specific authors in general; this one concentrated on a story from any one author that impressed Peter Orner in some way, especially when that story's event or some part of it coincided with something in his personal life.As to Orner's life, writing the personal together with the author's review or rather the understanding and experience of a specific scene or story adds a touching emotional element to a book, which in the hands of a lesser writer could become dull and businesslike.Also, in some way, Orner's way of experiencing stories coincides with mine, in that I also react to them rather than applaud them because they won this or that award. In fact, he says he picked a couple of the books out of used-books bins and reacted to them as if their authors were Nobel-Prize winners.To date, I haven't read any other books by this author. I think I'll remedy that now.

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