Fall MQR features writers discussing writers

October 19, 2000
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ANN ARBOR—The fall edition of the Michigan Quarterly Review (MQR), now available, features articles by an international panel of authors.

Bert Cardullo, associate professor of theatre and drama at the University of Michigan, contributes an essay about the film career of director Ingmar Bergman. Cardullo compares Bergman’s “Autumn Sonata” to the Swedish director’s other films, as well as to American films including Woody Allen’s “Interiors” and Eugene O’Neill‘s “Long Days Journey Into the Night.”

Former U-M Prof. Donald Hall includes a poem about his late wife and an essay about his early career as a poet. Robert Solotaroff reviews the new book “The Feast of Love” by U-M English Prof. Charles Baxter, and the new book by Carolyn See, “The Handyman.”

U-M alumni Lawrence Joseph and Elisabeth Rich’s “Smokey Robinson’s High Tenor Voice” and “Chekhov and the Moscow Stage Today: Interviews with Leading Russian Theatre Directors,” respectively, are included.

Stephen Dunn, who recently published his 12th book of poetry, “Different Hours,” available this season from Norton, adds “Their Divorce.” Dunn is a visiting professor in the Michigan English department. this year. J.J. Wylie interviews author Russell Banks about “Reinventing Realism.” Banks, author of “The Sweet Hereafter,” an Academy Award screenplay nominee, will be visiting U-M for a week in the winter.

MQR is published quarterly at U-M; yearly subscriptions can be purchased for $18, and single copies are available for $5. Contact MQR at 3032 Rackham Building, Ann Arbor MI, 48109.

Michigan Quarterly ReviewBert CardulloDonald HallLawrence JosephStephen Dunn