Maureen Corrigan: 3 books
Leave Me Alone, I'm Reading
Finding and Losing Myself in Books
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
In this delightful memoir, the book critic for NPR’s Fresh Air reflects on her life as a professional reader. Maureen Corrigan takes us from her unpretentious girlhood in working-class Queens, to her bemused years in an Ivy League Ph.D. program, from the whirl of falling in love and marrying (a...
So We Read On
How The Great Gatsby Came to Be and Why It Endures
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2014
The "Fresh Air" book critic investigates the enduring power of The Great Gatsby -- "The Great American Novel we all think we've read, but really haven't."
Conceived nearly a century ago by a man who died believing himself a failure, it's now a revered classic and a rite...
by Maureen T. Corrigan
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2016
Have you ever packed your bags for a holiday and wondered whether you’d forgotten anything? Passport, plane ticket, hotel booking... But what if you also had to remember to find out whether you could use the shower in your hotel? Or how many steps you had to climb to get to your room? Or whether you...