{"product_id":"still-no-word-from-you-isbn-9781646221363","title":"Still No Word from You","description":"\u003cb\u003eFinalist for the Vermont Book Award\u003cbr\u003eFinalist for the PEN\/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA new collection of pieces on literature and life by the author of \u003ci\u003eAm I Alone Here?\u003c\/i\u003e, a finalist for the NBCC Award for Criticism\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eStationed in the South Pacific during World War II, Seymour Orner wrote a letter every day to his wife, Lorraine. She seldom responded, leading him to plead in 1945, “Another day and still no word from you.” Seventy years later, Peter Orner writes in response to his grandfather’s plea: “Maybe we read because we seek that word from someone, from anyone.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom the acclaimed fiction writer about whom Dwight Garner of \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e wrote, “You know from the second you pick him up that he’s the real deal,” comes \u003ci\u003eStill No Word from You\u003c\/i\u003e, a unique chain of essays and intimate stories that meld the lived life and the reading life. For Orner, there is no separation. Covering such well-known writers as Lorraine Hansberry, Primo Levi, and Marilynne Robinson, as well as other greats like Maeve Brennan and James Alan McPherson, Orner’s highly personal take on literature alternates with his own true stories of loss and love, hope and despair. In his mother’s copy of \u003ci\u003eA Coney Island of the Mind\u003c\/i\u003e, he’s stopped short by a single word in the margin, “YES!”—which leads him to conjure his mother at twenty-three. He stops reading Penelope Fitzgerald’s \u003ci\u003eThe Beginning of Spring\u003c\/i\u003e three quarters of the way through because he knows that finishing the novel will leave him bereft. Orner’s solution is to start again from the beginning to slow the inevitable heartache.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eStill No Word from You\u003c\/i\u003e is a book for anyone for whom reading is as essential as breathing.\u003cb\u003eFinalist for the Vermont Book Award\u003cbr\u003eFinalist for the PEN\/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Orner is a highly lauded author whose writing, in both fiction and nonfiction, is an act of wizardry. In each of these micro-essays, he reduces the meat of his own life down to the bone, then stirs in fatty excerpts from hundreds of stories, novels and poems by writers ranging from Woolf to Rhys, Babel to Kafka. The resulting brew sometimes scalds, sometimes soothes, but always proves that literature can be a kind of sustenance.\" —Stephanie Elizondo Griest, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Like its predecessor collection \u003ci\u003eAm I Alone Here?\u003c\/i\u003e, a 2016 finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in criticism, Still No Word From You is a book of conversations: Orner in dialogue with other books, Orner in dialogue with himself . . . \u003ci\u003eStill No Word From You\u003c\/i\u003e looks at its author’s life through the lens of reading: memoir as daybook, as it were. In 107 short essays or chapters (some just a paragraph), Orner shapeshifts and time travels.\" —David Ulin, \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Yearning for lost time infuses every page of [Peter Orner's] second nonfiction collection . . . The book compiles 107 micro-essays that are part reader’s notebook and part, in his words, 'reluctant memoir.' It’s a meditation on storytelling from a wide-ranging thinker and reader, mining Orner’s past, generations of family history and the many fictional folks swirling around his mind.\" —Lisa Taggert, \u003ci\u003eThe San Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"If there’s an ideal autumn book, it’s a book about books, writers and reading. \u003ci\u003eStill No Word From You: Notes in the Margin\u003c\/i\u003e (Oct. 11), by the always undervalued Peter Orner, swings seamlessly between his Highland Park boyhood (a Cheever tale, writ large) and his reading life, mourning family, and even stumbling on his mother’s youthful marginalia.\" —Christopher Borrelli, \u003ci\u003eChicago Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"[Orner's] compassion for humanity, both despite and because of the cruelties and the griefs which we inflict and suffer, gleams unmistakably through his prose.\" —Daniel Kraft, \u003ci\u003eOn the Seawall\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A heartfelt memoir in books and marginalia . . . In Peter Orner’s \u003ci\u003eStill No Word from You\u003c\/i\u003e, literature and life are inextricably intertwined, each illuminating the other.\" —Julia M. Klein, \u003ci\u003eThe Forward\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Peter Orner’s new book, \u003ci\u003eStill No Word From You\u003c\/i\u003e, reads like a full expression of a mind, in a different way than a novel might be an expression of a mind . . . The tone is intimate, digressive, and personal, and the cumulative effect is a total immersion in the author’s way of seeing.\" —Emma Cline, \u003ci\u003eLiterary Hub\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Orner—a legitimate triple-threat: novelist, short story master, and prolific essayist—returns with an addictive collection of more than 100 buoyant essays organized around a single day and a wide range of emotions . . . [A] wise, welcoming, heartfelt book.\" —\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e (starred review)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Pushcart Prize–winning fiction writer Orner (\u003ci\u003eMaggie Brown \u0026amp; Others\u003c\/i\u003e) brings his lyrical, mosaic style to the story of his own life in this gorgeous and contemplative memoir. Blending photographs, family lore, speculation, and literary musings, Orner’s nonlinear narrative weaves through elliptical reflections and faint memories from his 1970s childhood to the sorrows and delights of his adulthood . . . When his fragmented ruminations loop back to a powerful impression or image or favorite book, the effect is like turning over a prism in one’s hands, catching vivid flashes of light at each angle. Evocative and erudite, this meditation on impermanence and its ephemeral joys is a gem.\" —\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly \u003c\/i\u003e(starred review)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Peter Orner's work clings close to life, to the unadorned, untranscended, dear and haunting Actual.\" ––Marilynne Robinson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“This is a unique concoction, with essays bleeding into stories, and coming out the other side, and creating something new. \u003ci\u003eStill No Word from You \u003c\/i\u003eis a beautiful piece of work that demonstrates the special illumination on life granted by a passion for reading.” ––Kevin Barry, author of \u003ci\u003eNight Boat to Tangier\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"What to call this gloriously strange marvel of a book devoted to other books? Who cares? \u003ci\u003eStill No Word from You \u003c\/i\u003eoffers solace to those among us who look out windows, whose minds wander, who are bewildered by time and memory. It is an elegy to long-gone houses, bookstores, teachers, family, writers, and all of the murmuring dead; an ode to the parenthetical, which, it turns out, is not parenthetical at all; a beautiful testament to the way the books we love are not merely as real as life, they are life.\" ––Maud Casey, author of\u003ci\u003e City of Incurable Women\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eStill No Word from You\u003c\/i\u003e is a sharp-edged and heartfelt mosaic of the reading life. I know of no other writer working today who so exquisitely and seamlessly brings together storytelling, memoir, essay, and the act of reading as both a visionary and an intimate journey.\" ––Eduardo Halfon, author of \u003ci\u003eMourning\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003ePETER ORNER\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of the novels \u003ci\u003eThe Second Coming of Mavala Shikongo\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eLove and Shame and Love\u003c\/i\u003e and the story collections \u003ci\u003eEsther Stories\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLast Car Over the Sagamore Bridge\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eMaggie Brown \u0026amp; Others\u003c\/i\u003e. His previous collection of essays, \u003ci\u003eAm I Alone Here?: Notes on Living to Read and Reading to Live\u003c\/i\u003e, was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism. A three-time recipient of the Pushcart Prize, Orner’s work has appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe Best American Short Stories, The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The Paris Review, Granta, McSweeney’s\u003c\/i\u003e, and has been translated into eight ­languages. He has been awarded the Rome Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a two-year Lannan Foundation Literary Fellowship, the California Book Award for fiction, the Edward Lewis Wallant Award for Jewish fiction, as well as a Fulbright in Namibia. He is the director of creative writing at Dartmouth College and lives with his family in Norwich, Vermont.","brand":"Catapult","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46305348780261,"sku":"NP9781646221363","price":26.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781646221363.jpg?v=1767737334","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/still-no-word-from-you-isbn-9781646221363","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}