Anthony Doerr

O. Henry Prize Stories 2012

anthony — Wed, 02 May 2012 14:46:45 +0000

Anthony’s short story “The Deep” is included in the 2012 edition of the O. Henry Prize Stories.

Irish Examiner

anthony — Sun, 22 Apr 2012 14:07:19 +0000

Doerr is one of the modern short story’s most exciting and innovative exponents. -Irish Examiner

A Defense of Libraries in Four Parts

anthony — Sun, 01 Apr 2012 18:14:35 +0000

Not Mom, not the prim librarians stamping return dates onto slip after slip. No one ever said: This book is outside your age range; this book is too complicated.… From Let Us Now Praise Libraries, Librarians , an April 1 op-ed in the Sunday Boston Globe.

Too Many Books, Too Little Time

anthony — Sun, 04 Mar 2012 15:53:19 +0000

This is how I feel, lately, about my reading life: dizzy, overwhelmed. Somehow, seemingly overnight, I have 70,000 choices… From Too Many Books, Too Little Time, a March 4 op-ed in the Sunday Globe.

Irish Times

anthony — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 16:05:50 +0000

His writing is lyrical, his stories are moving and his style is controlled. -From a brief review in the Irish Times.

The Street Sweeper

anthony — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 15:30:49 +0000

Preachy fiction is so often joyless fiction. It is uncomplicated fiction. Yet, despite its narrative breadth and complexity, more than any novel I’ve read in the past few years, “The Street Sweeper’’ risks being called preachy. It’s very last line, after all – no spoiler here, don’t worry – is “Tell everyone what happened here.’’ From a review of Elliot Perlman’s The Street Sweeper in the Feburary 5 Sunday Globe.

The Moment

anthony — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 16:37:38 +0000

I have a short essay about almost drowning in a new book called The Moment: Wild, Poignant, Life-Changing Stories from 125 Writers and Artists Famous & Obscure. There’re lots of smart, alarming, funny, charming, and fascinating pieces in this little book.

Independent

anthony — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 16:27:07 +0000

Brilliant… Like Proust, Doerr understands that reminiscences are prompted by the most mundane of things . A review in The Independent

Planet Zoo

Wed, 11 Jan 2012 23:24:14 +0000

Anthony writes about gigantic Frisbees and whale carcasses and huge smacks of jellyfish demolishing salmon farms, as well as the future of global warming, in a chilling new essay for TMN.

Best of 2011

anthony — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 16:47:20 +0000

Anthony’s column about his favorite science titles from 2011 features books about our freshwater crisis, books about information overload, a memoir by the world’s most famous ornithologist, and a fascinating new title about how impressive science (in mathematics, genetics, astronomy) is being accomplished by crowds using the tools of the Internet.