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Enter the Fellowship Point Sweeps!
Fellowship Point A Novel THE PERFECT GIFT FOR MOTHER’S DAY! “A magnificent storytelling feat” (The Boston Globe) story of lifelong friendship between two very different “superbly depicted” (The Wall Street Journal) women with shared histories, divisive loyalties, hidden sorrows, and eighty years of summers on a pristine point of land on the coast of Maine, set across the arc of the 20th century.
A complex story of relationships and religion
Writers of beloved children’s books hold a special place in the hearts of readers. The creator of a fictional revered figure of this kind, then, has a difficult task: how to make the character worthy of admiration, yet not so perfect that readers can’t relate to her. In Agnes Lee, the protagonist of Alice Elliott Dark’s novel Fellowship Point, readers get the flawed heroine they crave.
Break on Through to the Other Side
This past week in my seminar on the Neapolitan novel we ended up talking about artistic breakthroughs. How does an artist get from doing good but not great work or great but shy of genius work to suddenly seeing what they intuited lurked somewhere all along—why they were pursuing the work to begin with—and then being able to execute it. For surely the Neapolitan novel is a breakthrough work. It has the quality that I think of as presence, or possibly eternity.
Teddy's Rough Readers Book Club
MARCH 27 - If a Poem Could Live and Breathe by Mary Calvi
Why Men Great Til They Gotta Be Great
Lizzo got me with this lyric. It’s such witty and well-formed sentence, such a sharp observation of the bewilderment engendered by errant behavior, such an unimpeachable demonstration of how capturing verbal usage can empower grammar, such a good piece of writing. I’ve had it running through my head all week as I have been rereading In the Margins by Elena Ferrante in preparation for a seminar on the Neapolitan novels I’m teaching this semester.
Best books of 2022: A guide to the choicest reads of the year
Fiction Fellowship Point, by Alice Elliott Dark Alice Elliott Dark’s exquisitely written, utterly engrossing novel “Fellowship Point,” set in Maine’s gorgeous but threatened coastal landscape, explores the beauty and tensions of a lifelong friendship between two women whose choices have taken them down different paths. The result is a deftly woven narrative about caring for the places and people we love, and an affirmation that change and growth are possible at any age. Full review here.
At Home with Literati: Lee Martin & Alice Elliott Dark
We're pleased to welcome Lee Martin to our At Home with Literati Series in support of The Glassmaker's Wife. He will be joined in conversation by Alice Elliott Dark. Click here to join the webinar event on 1/9. No pre-registration required! Note: we are now hosting on Zoom webinars. You will be prompted to enter a first name and email upon joining.
NEED TO READ: JULY 2022
THE HOTEL NANTUCKET by Elin Hilderbrand New York Times bestselling author and my “work wife,” Elin Hilderbrand is no stranger to N Magazine, and this, her twenty-eighth novel, just might be her best yet. Welcome to The Hotel Nantucket! There is a reason Elin is hailed as the “Queen of the Beach Reads.” There are enough diverse people and personalities, Nantucket nostalgia, drama, seafood, beachy vibes and island style to fill her Hotel Nantucket for several summer seasons.
Shelf Awareness for Readers for Friday, December 2, 2022
Black Hollywood: Reimagining Iconic Movie Moments by Carell Augustus For the brilliantly conceived Black Hollywood: Reimagining Iconic Movie Moments, photographer Carell Augustus recasts familiar shots from classic films and others--as well as career-defining stills of Tinseltown greats--with Black leads. It is a knockout portrait showcase. For his subjects, Augustus taps more than 60 figures in the world of arts and entertainment. Vivica A.
A good book for under the tree
Here are some local and global recommendations for children and adults as you top off your holiday shopping. By Alice Elliott Dark This is my favorite fiction of the season. Several Quaker Philadelphia families have maintained the homes and wilderness of an idyllic Maine peninsula over hundreds of years, but times and pressures are changing fast. Relatable and fascinating characters, focusing on the lifelong friendship of two women now in their eighties.
Housekeeping
I am cleaning out my house. I have lived here since 1993, moved from the Upper West Side of Manhattan for a number of reasons. I was unwilling to fight for a school placement. Our block had gone from being a nice sleepy heroin block to a crack block zinging with gun fire and drama. We were under threat of our rent-stabilized place becoming a co-op. Honestly though, none of those were more than excuses. The real reason is private. But also, I was thinking about other things.
Where is Fellowship Point?
The question I have been asked most often since I’ve been in Maine this week is…where is the real Fellowship Point? Or people have told me they know where it is. Somehow saying it exists only in the novel doesn’t go far toward dispelling the notion that there is a real place that could be visited. Every time someone asks I think of the the answer newspaperman Francis Pharcellis Church gave to a child named Virginia when her friends told her there was no Santa Claus.
Bookcation Summer Reading Guide
The Last to Vanish A Novel “This eerie thriller…can stand next to Shirley Jackson’s The Haunting of Hill House and Stephen King’s The Shining.” —Booklist (starred review) New York Times bestselling author Megan Miranda returns with a gripping and propulsive thriller that opens with the disappearance of a journalist who is investigating a string of vanishings in the resort town of Cutter’s Pass—will its dark secrets finally be revealed? Hardcover LIST PRICE $27.99 PRICE MAY VARY BY RETAILER
What the staff at BookBar suggests for your next great read
As part of The Colorado Sun’s literature section — SunLit — we’re featuring staff picks from book stores across the state.
Bookcation Summer Reading Guide: Poolside Picks
The Summer Place A Novel INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTELLER From “the undisputed boss of the beach read” (The New York Times), The Summer Place is a testament to family in all its messy glory; a story about what we sacrifice and how we forgive. Enthralling, witty, big-hearted, and sharply observed, this is Jennifer Weiner’s love letter to the Outer Cape and the power of home, the way our lives are enriched by the people we call family, and the endless ways love can surprise us.
Alice Elliott Dark on How to Let Characters Change
The following first appeared in Lit Hub’s The Craft of Writing newsletter—sign up here. When I was first learning how to write fiction, I read that one of the most important elements of dramatic writing is that the events of a story will effect a change in the protagonist toward the end. The idea that characters can change, and in fact, are created to change, rang true from my decades of reading.
Need a summer escape? Travel to coastal Maine, East Germany, occupied France.
If you’re looking for adventure in your summer reading, we’ve got some suggestions. The books that Monitor reviewers liked best this month run the gamut from an epic novel about women’s friendship to a history-rich spy thriller set during the Cold War. Why We Wrote This Our 10 picks for July include books that affirm the vitality of friendship, celebrate leadership on a dangerous mission, and explore truth, honor, and loyalty in an ever-shifting world.
Enter the Fellowship Point Sweeps!
Fellowship Point A Novel The masterful story of a lifelong friendship between two very different women with shared histories and buried secrets, tested in the twilight of their lives, set across the arc of the 20th century.
Pay Attention to These Old Women. You’ll Learn Something.
FELLOWSHIP POINT, by Alice Elliott Dark Novels featuring older characters are well suited to an exploration of questions about time, history and change. Unlike younger protagonists, they already know who they’ve become and what they’ve made of their lives. They’re not finished yet, but they are as busy reckoning with the past as they are living in the present.
10 books to add to your reading list in July 2022
On the Shelf 10 July Books For Your Reading List If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.org, whose fees support independent bookstores. Critic Bethanne Patrick recommends 10 promising titles, fiction and nonfiction, to consider for your July list. Beach reads, more than ever, are in the eye of the beholder. An uncommonly thoughtful and fun romance? Sure.
Fellowship Point
Fellowship Point reads like a classic 19th-century novel in its beautifully woven, multilayered narrative, but it is entirely contemporary in the themes it explores; a deep and empathic interest in women’s lives, the class differences that divided us, the struggle to protect the natural world, and, above all, a reckoning with intimacy, history, and posterity. It is a masterwork from Alice Elliott Dark. Read More
FELLOWSHIP POINT
by Alice Elliott Dark ‧ A sweeping story of lifelong best friends from Philadelphia Quaker families who share a vacation spot and a moral exigency. Dark confesses in her acknowledgments that she had “doubts about the appeal of two old ladies,” but she's written the rare 592-page novel you'll be sorry to finish. Eighty-year-old spinster Agnes Lee is the successful author of two series of books. She’s known for one of them, 30-plus children’s tales about a 9-year-old named Nan.
Fellowship Point
INTRODUCTION After a cancer recurrence, children’s book author Agnes Lee decides to secure her legacy by completing the final volume in her Franklin Square book series—a string of literary novels published under a pseudonym. Meanwhile, and just as time consuming, is her plan to protect a majestic stretch of land along the Maine peninsula known as Fellowship Point. To do this, Agnes must convince shareholders to dissolve a generations-old land trust.
Bookcation Summer Reading Guide
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In the Gloaming
The New Yorker, May 3, 1993 P. 88 Laird, who is dying of AIDS, has moved home and is confined to a wheelchair. He broods during the days, but on the first summer night, when they eat outside, Laird talked to his mother, Janet. His father, Martin had hurriedly left the table to delve into his work. Laird had recently declared a new policy: no visitors, no phone calls. On that peaceful, calm summer's evening, Laird and Janet discussed the gloaming, the name for twilight in Scotland.
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