Karen Joy Fowler
Karen Joy Fowler
Karen Joy Fowleris an American author of science fiction, fantasy, and literary fiction. Her work often centers on the nineteenth century, the lives of women, and alienation...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth7 February 1950
CountryUnited States of America
impact needs bookstores
Allegra's Austen wrote about the impact of financial need on the intimate lives of women. If she'd worked in a bookstore, Allegra would have shelved Austen in the horror section.
special likes mystery
In general, librarians enjoyed special requests. A reference librarian is someone who likes the chase. When librarians read for pleasure, they often pick a good mystery.
voice water owl
Owls hoot in B flat, cuckoos in D, but the water ousel sings in the voice of the stream. She builds her nest back of the waterfalls so the water is a lullaby to the little ones. Must be where they learn it.
writing important austen
It was the marriage that was important; Jane Austen rarely even bothered to write about the wedding.
character thinking finding-love
There was something appealing in thinking of a character with a secret life that her author knew nothing about. Slipping off while the author's back was turned, to find love in her own way. Showing up just in time to deliver the next bit of dialogue with an innocent face.
fighting space plot
Marriage seemed like such a small space whenever I was in it. I liked the getting married. Courtship has a plotline. But there's no plot to being married. Just the same things over and over again. Same fights, same friends, same things you do on a Saturday. The repetition would start to get to me.
parent wish easier
But no one is easier to delude than a parent; they see only what they wish to see.
humans subjects
There's science and there's science, is all I'm saying. Where humans are the subjects, it's mostly not science
austen
Each of us has a private Austen.
earth pheromones idiom
Pheromones are Earth's primordial idiom.
succeed matter failing
Where you succeed will never matter so much as where you fail.
beautiful sleep white
You can’t imagine the white-hot fury someone who can’t sleep has toward the beautiful dreamer beside him.
daughter psychologist knows
I am the daughter of a psychologist. I know that the thing ostensibly being studied is rarely the thing being studied. (We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves, p. 99)
definitions corporations slides
I'm unclear on the definition of person the courts have been using. Something that sieves out dolphins but lets corporations slide on through.