Like the Life of Lorrie Moore, the theme develops mainly on the way romantic stories and relationships cause heartache and irony. The two stories of her book show people who can not cope with the "real world" and eventually become lonely. "Vissi d'Arte" and "Starving Again" turn more attention to the male protagonist. A male hero can not establish a long-term relationship or emotion about something due to narrow and blind behavior. In "Vissi d'Arte", a talented playwright who lives in the dirty Times Square lost to Hollywood sharp people, sacrificing all good things in his life due to his unfinished masterpiece.
For some people short stories begin with Chekhov. For others, it began with Hemingway. For me, in the mid 1990's, it began with Lorrie Moore. I looked for the next book I had a puberty and crouch under the light of Barnes and Noble. At that time, there was no electronic literature told me that I liked Moore, and I will enter her demographics (alienated woman) who will soon get bored with the generation of boring writer and writer. This is a bad thing, I learned how to break the novel rules before learning rules. Moore is saying "to become a writer" by a narrator "a person deserving death". For life, there is a joke by Raleigh Moore, the whole page is a completely original metaphor "Ha! Ha! And along with them, a new observation method
So why are not you reading Lorrie Moore? In most cases, it was not found at all. I wish for my mother's death not because I read "American Bird", but I refused her because Moore stole my sandwich from McDowell's refrigerator. In the office, it is dull for me to say my impression that Moore is the type of "MFA writer", which I usually do not like. Someone told me that I was wrong. Someone told me that the reading range of Moore is far beyond the world of MFA, she was read by "all women", and she invented the teaching of the second person short story ". (The last point is that the doctor invented genital herpes, but everyone invented it.)