Every seasoned author has overarching themes that he or she explores, to success or failure, across a series of books. Mediocrity and defeat — twin afflictions that beset the narrators in Peter ...
In Peter Orner’s Still No Word from You, literature and life are inextricably intertwined, each illuminating the other. Orner’s latest collection is part memoir, part criticism, transcending genre, or ...
Midway through his essay about “The Old System” by Saul Bellow, Peter Orner mentions the “kitchen table story.” This is Orner’s “preferred species of story,” he writes, “where a single, motionless ...
About halfway through “Still No Word From You: Notes in the Margin,” Peter Orner invokes Terrance Hayes’ “To Float in the Space Between: A Life and Work in Conversation With the Life and Work of ...
Peter Orner’s new book, “Still No Word From You: Notes in the Margin,” blends memoir and essays to examine the power of reading and literature to shape our lives. A Guggenheim Fellow, Orner has ...
Australian expat and Emmy- and Academy Award-winning filmmaker Eva Orner grew up with zero concept of the institution’s importance. So much so that when she was approached to direct Surviving Ohio ...