See What Can Be Done : Essays, Criticism, and Commentary

From one of America's most revered and admired authors: a comprehensive collection of Lorrie Moore's critical writing, which parses the political, artistic, and media idiom of the last three decades. An essential, enlightening, truly delightful collection that shows, as The New York Times puts it, "an intellectual having fun." These essays and book reviews, culled from the pages of The New York Review of Books, The New York Times, Harper's Magazine, The Atlantic, and The New Yorker (among others), find Lorrie Moore turning her discerning eye on everything from Don DeLillo to Joyce Carol Oates, from race in America to the shocking state of the GOP, from celebrity culture to the wilds of television, from O.J. Simpson to Stephen Stills. See What Can Be Done is a perfect blend of craft, brains, and a knowing Moorean take on life, liberty, and the pursuit of (some kind of) happiness.