Alan Cheuse
Biographic Data
| ID | 952251 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alan Cheuse |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alan |
| FAMILY NAME | Cheuse |
| SIGNATURE | CHEUSE A |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1975 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Form Read Round the World
Surveys the origin and development of the modern short story, briefly commenting on Chekov’s influence on Hemingway and Hemingway’s influence on later writers
The Age of Orphans by Laleh KhadiviThe Siege by Ismail Kadare
Canadian writer Helen Hum phreys deals in her lovely prose experiment, The Frozen Thames,with a kind of creation: the way that water turns to ice in winter?in forty win ters to be exact, forty winters over the course of seven centuries. Over and over again the Thames freezes, birds freezeand fallfromtheair,and Londoners face the cold and dan ger and pleasure of river ice. Boat men lament the loss of free-flowing water, the poor sometimes freeze i…
The Ghost in Love by Jonathan CarrollDeath with Interruptions by José Saramago
the setting itself, with a natural ease and beauty. As in this passage? pun intended?when the ship,with its indentured passengers, most of whom have never seen the ocean, anchors forone last night in Indian waters: "The last place from which themigrants would be able to view their native shore: this was Saugor Roads, a much trafficked anchorage in the lee ofGanga-Sagar, the island that stands between the sea and the holy river-The very name Ganga…
Du Fu
the setting itself, with a natural ease and beauty. As in this passage? pun intended?when the ship,with its indentured passengers, most of whom have never seen the ocean, anchors forone last night in Indian waters: "The last place from which themigrants would be able to view their native shore: this was Saugor Roads, a much trafficked anchorage in the lee ofGanga-Sagar, the island that stands between the sea and the holy river-The very name Ganga…
Ruins by Achy Obejas
Ruins byAchyObejas (AkashicBooks, 2009) First aired on NPRApril 17, 2009 Achy Obejas was born inHavana, and has lived a long while in the United States. In her new book, a novel called Ruins, she takes readers to her native city, as she creates a bittersweet portrait ofCuban life in the mid-1990s. Obejas's main char acter is a middle-aged man named Usnavy. (His mother, with all the best hopes for her son, took his name from the side of an America…
Blonde Roots by Bernardine Evaristo
w i IMIIHmII 1m Blonde Roots by Bernardine Evaristo (RiverheadBooks, 2009) First aired on NPR January5, 2009 Modern Western history turned inside out. African slave-traders raiding Europe and selling their pale-skinned captives to Afri can plantation owners in the New World. That's thepremise ofAnglo Nigerian novelist Bernardine Evaris to's new work of book-length fiction. She calls thebook BlondeRoots. The main character, a woman named Doris Sca…
Between the Assassinations by Aravind Adiga
Ruins byAchyObejas (AkashicBooks, 2009) First aired on NPRApril 17, 2009 Achy Obejas was born inHavana, and has lived a long while in the United States. In her new book, a novel called Ruins, she takes readers to her native city, as she creates a bittersweet portrait ofCuban life in the mid-1990s. Obejas's main char acter is a middle-aged man named Usnavy. (His mother, with all the best hopes for her son, took his name from the side of an America…
The Stalin Epigram by Robert Littell
ALAN CHEUSE OFFTH BOOK REVIEWS FROM NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO 3 The Stalin Epigram byRobert Littell (Simon& Schuster,2009) First aired on NPRMay 29, 2009 It happens to the best of them: seasoned thrillerwriters taking it upon themselves to write a novel that extends the boundaries of the genre?or leaps them altogether? as a way of making a bolder, larger statement about life in thewriter's time. Robert Littell's new novel about the life (and death) a…
Thirty-Five Passages over Water
Gee, The Poet and theSea by JuanRamon Jimenez,Dark ThingsbyNovica Tadic, DeKok and the Mask of Death byA.C. Baantjer MORE ON PAGE8 CLOCKWISE FROM FARLEFT Latenight intheold city center; midday inthenew city center; statues line the Lithuanian National Opera and Ballet Theatre building; and thedomesof theChurchof theSaint Virgin's Apparition shine in the sun. EightBooks to Read Before You Go? Or Even If You Don't The BalticQuintet: Poemsfrom Eston…
Infinity in the Palm of Her Hand by Gioconda BelliThe Frozen Thames by Helen Humphreys, Helen Humphrey
w i IMIIHmII 1m Blonde Roots by Bernardine Evaristo (RiverheadBooks, 2009) First aired on NPR January5, 2009 Modern Western history turned inside out. African slave-traders raiding Europe and selling their pale-skinned captives to Afri can plantation owners in the New World. That's thepremise ofAnglo Nigerian novelist Bernardine Evaris to's new work of book-length fiction. She calls thebook BlondeRoots. The main character, a woman named Doris Sca…
Sea of Poppies by Amitav Ghosh
Sea of Poppies byAmitav Ghosh (FarrarStraus& Giroux, 2008) First aired on NPR November 12, 2008 Imagine if Charles Dickens had signed on for a voyage with the Pequod, and you get some idea of what Amitav Ghosh's sprawling new historical novel, Sea ofPoppies,has in store. Ghosh conjures up a former slave ship called the Ibis, in theyear 1838. It'spacked with amultitude of characters: a mixed-race novice sea hand from Baltimore named Zacha ryReid; …
Talking Horse
Hamlet in Haiti
(1975). Hamlet in Haiti: Style in Carpentier's the Kingdom of this World. Caribbean Quarterly: Vol. 21, No. 4, pp. 13-29
Between the Assassinations by Aravind Adiga
Ruins byAchyObejas (AkashicBooks, 2009) First aired on NPRApril 17, 2009 Achy Obejas was born inHavana, and has lived a long while in the United States. In her new book, a novel called Ruins, she takes readers to her native city, as she creates a bittersweet portrait ofCuban life in the mid-1990s. Obejas's main char acter is a middle-aged man named Usnavy. (His mother, with all the best hopes for her son, took his name from the side of an America…
Hamlet in Haiti
(1975). Hamlet in Haiti: Style in Carpentier's the Kingdom of this World. Caribbean Quarterly: Vol. 21, No. 4, pp. 13-29
Talking Horse
The Age of Orphans by Laleh KhadiviThe Siege by Ismail Kadare
Canadian writer Helen Hum phreys deals in her lovely prose experiment, The Frozen Thames,with a kind of creation: the way that water turns to ice in winter?in forty win ters to be exact, forty winters over the course of seven centuries. Over and over again the Thames freezes, birds freezeand fallfromtheair,and Londoners face the cold and dan ger and pleasure of river ice. Boat men lament the loss of free-flowing water, the poor sometimes freeze i…
The Ghost in Love by Jonathan CarrollDeath with Interruptions by José Saramago
the setting itself, with a natural ease and beauty. As in this passage? pun intended?when the ship,with its indentured passengers, most of whom have never seen the ocean, anchors forone last night in Indian waters: "The last place from which themigrants would be able to view their native shore: this was Saugor Roads, a much trafficked anchorage in the lee ofGanga-Sagar, the island that stands between the sea and the holy river-The very name Ganga…
Du Fu
the setting itself, with a natural ease and beauty. As in this passage? pun intended?when the ship,with its indentured passengers, most of whom have never seen the ocean, anchors forone last night in Indian waters: "The last place from which themigrants would be able to view their native shore: this was Saugor Roads, a much trafficked anchorage in the lee ofGanga-Sagar, the island that stands between the sea and the holy river-The very name Ganga…
Ruins by Achy Obejas
Ruins byAchyObejas (AkashicBooks, 2009) First aired on NPRApril 17, 2009 Achy Obejas was born inHavana, and has lived a long while in the United States. In her new book, a novel called Ruins, she takes readers to her native city, as she creates a bittersweet portrait ofCuban life in the mid-1990s. Obejas's main char acter is a middle-aged man named Usnavy. (His mother, with all the best hopes for her son, took his name from the side of an America…
Blonde Roots by Bernardine Evaristo
w i IMIIHmII 1m Blonde Roots by Bernardine Evaristo (RiverheadBooks, 2009) First aired on NPR January5, 2009 Modern Western history turned inside out. African slave-traders raiding Europe and selling their pale-skinned captives to Afri can plantation owners in the New World. That's thepremise ofAnglo Nigerian novelist Bernardine Evaris to's new work of book-length fiction. She calls thebook BlondeRoots. The main character, a woman named Doris Sca…
Between the Assassinations by Aravind Adiga
Ruins byAchyObejas (AkashicBooks, 2009) First aired on NPRApril 17, 2009 Achy Obejas was born inHavana, and has lived a long while in the United States. In her new book, a novel called Ruins, she takes readers to her native city, as she creates a bittersweet portrait ofCuban life in the mid-1990s. Obejas's main char acter is a middle-aged man named Usnavy. (His mother, with all the best hopes for her son, took his name from the side of an America…
The Stalin Epigram by Robert Littell
ALAN CHEUSE OFFTH BOOK REVIEWS FROM NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO 3 The Stalin Epigram byRobert Littell (Simon& Schuster,2009) First aired on NPRMay 29, 2009 It happens to the best of them: seasoned thrillerwriters taking it upon themselves to write a novel that extends the boundaries of the genre?or leaps them altogether? as a way of making a bolder, larger statement about life in thewriter's time. Robert Littell's new novel about the life (and death) a…
Thirty-Five Passages over Water
Gee, The Poet and theSea by JuanRamon Jimenez,Dark ThingsbyNovica Tadic, DeKok and the Mask of Death byA.C. Baantjer MORE ON PAGE8 CLOCKWISE FROM FARLEFT Latenight intheold city center; midday inthenew city center; statues line the Lithuanian National Opera and Ballet Theatre building; and thedomesof theChurchof theSaint Virgin's Apparition shine in the sun. EightBooks to Read Before You Go? Or Even If You Don't The BalticQuintet: Poemsfrom Eston…
Infinity in the Palm of Her Hand by Gioconda BelliThe Frozen Thames by Helen Humphreys, Helen Humphrey
w i IMIIHmII 1m Blonde Roots by Bernardine Evaristo (RiverheadBooks, 2009) First aired on NPR January5, 2009 Modern Western history turned inside out. African slave-traders raiding Europe and selling their pale-skinned captives to Afri can plantation owners in the New World. That's thepremise ofAnglo Nigerian novelist Bernardine Evaris to's new work of book-length fiction. She calls thebook BlondeRoots. The main character, a woman named Doris Sca…
Sea of Poppies by Amitav Ghosh
Sea of Poppies byAmitav Ghosh (FarrarStraus& Giroux, 2008) First aired on NPR November 12, 2008 Imagine if Charles Dickens had signed on for a voyage with the Pequod, and you get some idea of what Amitav Ghosh's sprawling new historical novel, Sea ofPoppies,has in store. Ghosh conjures up a former slave ship called the Ibis, in theyear 1838. It'spacked with amultitude of characters: a mixed-race novice sea hand from Baltimore named Zacha ryReid; …
The Form Read Round the World
Surveys the origin and development of the modern short story, briefly commenting on Chekov’s influence on Hemingway and Hemingway’s influence on later writers
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