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Andrea Barrett

Andrea Barrett is the author of Archangel (a finalist for the Story Prize), Servants of the Map (a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize), Ship Fever (winner of the National Book Award), and other books. She teaches at Williams College and lives in northwestern Massachusetts.

Traveling Corpse

How an American sergeant’s journey through frigid North Russia inspired a work of historical fiction

by Andrea Barrett | Wednesday, December 10, 2014

Chasing Henrietta

Why one novelist keeps returning to the same inscrutable character

by Andrea Barrett | Monday, June 05, 2017

Tamarack State

by Andrea Barrett | Friday, June 01, 2007

Virginia Woolf’s The Years

What a novel could be

by Andrea Barrett | Monday, April 06, 2015

Don’t Be Afraid to Start Over

by Andrea Barrett | Monday, May 05, 2014

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The Moviegoers

by Mark Edmundson

Living in New York in the mid-1970s, Mark Edmundson was a cab driver, an occasional writer, and, most important, a moviegoer. It was a good time to be a film buff. Martin Scorsese had released Taxi Driver; Paul Schrader wrote and directed Blue Collar; and Robert Altman made The Long Goodbye and California Split. “I can’t really tell you whether these movies summarized a national mood, but they summarized some moods of mine,” writes Edmundson. “Matinees are therapy for those who can’t afford therapists.” Even when life seemed to be going nowhere, at the movies “there was always a chair, at least unoccupied if not specifically assigned, stained with Coke, crackling with popcorn bits.”