![]() ![]() My breakout book is widely acknowledged to be, "We Need To Talk About Kevin" published in 2003, about the mother of a school killer. Listen to the episode on your favorite podcast site: ![]() ![]() And it's given her remarkable freedom, not only to pen incisive, biting journalism but to write the kinds of books that will be remembered for decades to come, if not longer. The reality is that Shriver has had to blaze her own trail, which she's done. This counter-orthodox approach to ideas has certainly cost Shriver-after all, where is her Booker Prize, where is her National Book Award, where is her teaching gig at Columbia or Harvard or Iowa or wherever? As a journalist and essayist, she expresses views that diverge from those deemed acceptable by the literary establishment. ![]() She has published 14 (yes, 14!) novels, including the bestsellers The Mandibles: A Family, 2029-2047,Big Brother, So Much for That (a finalist for the 2010 National Book Award and the Wellcome Trust Book Prize), The Post-Birthday World ( Entertainment Weekly’s 2007 Book of the Year), and the Orange-Prize winner We Need to Talk About Kevin (a 2011 feature film starring Tilda Swinton).īeyond the astounding fact sheet, Shriver is a literary master, akin to the giants of literature in her ability to hone in on the emotional and psychic undercurrent shaping our lives, and translate this into compelling narrative wrought with a style that, in its precision and pacing, is uniquely Shriverian.ĭespite all this, Shriver has been shut out of the literary pantheon. Lionel Shriver is a literary force of nature. ![]()
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