A writer who is sensitive enough to have unusual powers of perception may also be a writer who is debilitatingly sensitive to criticism. That seems to have been the case with New Zealand author Janet ...
On this month’s fiction podcast, Miranda July reads the New Zealand author Janet Frame’s short story “Prizes,” which was published in The New Yorker in 1962. July, whose fiction and essays have been ...
New Zealand author Janet Frame, hailed for work described as a mighty exploration of human consciousness after years blighted by a misdiagnosis of mental illness, died on Thursday after a battle with ...
FACES IN THE WATER (254 pp.)—Janet Frame—Braziller ($4). To be mad, says Istina Mavet, is to know that things are far, far from what they seem. Workmen apparently digging a ditch are actually digging ...
Our fiction offering this week is “Gavin Highly,” by Janet Frame. Recently, Frame’s neice and literary executor, Pamela Gordon, exchanged e-mails with Deborah Treisman, the magazine’s fiction editor. ...
THE EDGE OF THE ALPHABET (303 pp.)—Janet Frame—Braziller ($4.95). “Man is the only species for whom the disposal of waste is a burden . . . especially when he learns to include himself, living and ...
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