Anagrams

We were in the middle of a game of Gibbets which, like Clumps, Lists and Anagrams, is an excellent game for long railway journeys – when we heard an ominous rending sound beneath our feet.

Try Anything Twice 1938

Lorrie Moore does this in her novel "Anagrams" - the device is initially confusing, then beautiful and sad, and finally devastating.

HH Com 293 (293!!!) Miss Snark 2006

Production of Anagrams, which is nothing else but a

Spectator, May 9, 1711 1711

That book, "Self-Help," was published in 1985, and since then she's produced many fabulously sardonic stories and two novels, "Anagrams" and "Who Will Run the Frog Hospital?"

The Human Comedy 2008

"When I was little ...," she wrote in "Anagrams," "I thought Bing Crosby and Bill Cosby were the same person.

The Human Comedy 2008

Neither Who Will Run the Frog Hospital? nor any of the stories in Like Life or Birds of America exhibit the interest in alternative narrative forms found in Self-Help and Anagrams.

March 2010 2010

Hermux Tantamoq, came to me during an impromptu game of Anagrams with my wife.

Michael Hoeye Discusses How Time Stops For No One Got Written 2010

Neither Who Will Run the Frog Hospital? nor any of the stories in Like Life or Birds of America exhibit the interest in alternative narrative forms found in Self-Help and Anagrams.

A Sad Decline 2010

Anagrams presents us with the stories of "Benna" and "Gerard," except that in the novel's five sections these are never quite the same characters (although also not completely different, either), their lives rearranged and recombined as narrative anagrams.

March 2010 2010

Lorrie Moore's first two books, the story collection Self-Help (1985) and the novel Anagrams (1986), introduceda writer possessing an appealing comic touch, lightly applied but not reducible to mere "humor," and a modest if still palpable impulse to formal experiment.

March 2010 2010