It’s just one of the tough truths of being an artist that you can publish 17 books and dozens of short stories—in both the big commercial magazines and the beloved literary journals—and wind up, two ...

When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. By Blake Bailey ALICE ADAMS Portrait of a Writer By Carol Sklenicka By Blake Bailey An admiring ...

Writer Alice Adams earned accolades as the "American Colette," as a maker of aching, Jamesian realism, and, essentially, as an unflinching witness to the infinitude of the female consciousness. In ...

Translating Booth Tarkington's sometimes poignant and pathetic 1921 novel of the pretending, wistful Alice, whose economic background almost proves too much of a hurdle to surmount, must have been a ...

In her first novel, Invincible Summer author Alice Adams follows a close-knit group of four best friends as they grow, change, and learn to navigate their ever evolving relationships over the course ...

WELLESLEY — Alice Adams has always looked beneath the surface. When she started weaving in the 1950s, the tufts and threads on the back of tapestries fascinated her. She began to employ starchier ...

Masoumeh Ghodrati has translated the book and Afkar-e Jadid Publication has brought it out in 300 pages, ISNA reported. The book received the 1922 Pulitzer Prize. It was adapted as a film in 1923 by ...