Cynthia Zarin's Books
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Saints Among the AnimalsWhat do a whatchful fly and a weight-bearing whale have in common? A grateful saint -- a saint whose life of work and devotion to God wouldn't have...Read More -
Albert, the Dog Who Liked to Ride in TaxisAlways Albert hopes for rain. On rainy days Mrs. Crabtree takes him with her for taxi rides. So much better than walks. One day -- brilliantly sunny,...Read More
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New York Times, March 8, 2013
...by Katherine Bouton. (Sarah Crichton/Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $26.) The science, and the experience, of hearing loss. , by Cynthia Zarin. (Knopf, $24.95.) The passage from innocence to experience is the principal unifying thread of these essays, written...
New York Times, March 1, 2013
...An Enlarged Heart is a collection of personal essays written mostly over the past decade by the poet Cynthia Zarin. I assume the book is labeled a personal history for the same reason that collections of short stories are sometimes called linked stories...
New York Times, February 23, 2013
...In her collection An Enlarged Heart: A Personal History (Knopf, $24.95), Cynthia Zarin delivers a dozen delightful essays set mostly in ephemeral Manhattan. Ms. Zarin is a poet and childrens author, and her first book of adult prose weaves a lyrical...
Huffington Post, February 12, 2013
...Excerpted from AN ENLARGED HEART by . Copyright © 2013 by Cynthia Zarin. Excerpted by permission of Knopf, a division of Random House, Inc. All rights reserved. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from...
Dallas Morning News, December 7, 2012
...portrait of the marriage she wished she had." In her 2004 New Yorker piece on the author, Cynthia Zarin revealed a darker picture. Franklin drank and cheated. Their son, Bion, died of alcoholism in 1999. Marcus’ collection creates a nuanced picture,...
Buffalo News, December 7, 2012
...whose popular Crosswicks Journals presented an idealized version of her marriage and family life, a truth revealed in Cynthia Zarin’s bombshell 2004 New Yorker profile. One can see in L’Engle’s own adolescence the feeling of displacement...
Book Reporter, November 22, 2012
...about censorship. Most notably --- and perhaps controversially --- Marcus closes his collection with a brief interview with Cynthia Zarin, whose polarizing 2004 profile of L'Engle in The New Yorker offered the first glimpse of the woman behind the...
Yale Daily News, May 18, 2013
...that she will see both matriculate and graduate, Miller noted. Miller read a humorous passage from Yale lecturer Cynthia Zarin’s poem “From the Book of Knowledge,” which she has featured at previous Baccalaureate services, and also kept with...
Dallas Morning News, December 7, 2012
...portrait of the marriage she wished she had." In her 2004 New Yorker piece on the author, Cynthia Zarin revealed a darker picture. Franklin drank and cheated. Their son, Bion, died of alcoholism in 1999. Marcus’ collection creates a nuanced picture,...
Buffalo News, December 7, 2012
...whose popular Crosswicks Journals presented an idealized version of her marriage and family life, a truth revealed in Cynthia Zarin’s bombshell 2004 New Yorker profile. One can see in L’Engle’s own adolescence the feeling of displacement...
Book Reporter, November 22, 2012
...about censorship. Most notably --- and perhaps controversially --- Marcus closes his collection with a brief interview with Cynthia Zarin, whose polarizing 2004 profile of L'Engle in The New Yorker offered the first glimpse of the woman behind the...
Cleveland Live, November 20, 2012
...with the family's imprimatur. They insisted that "we're not participating in any more hagiography." Writer Cynthia Zarin revealed that son Bion died at 47 from alcoholism, that L'Engle had mistreated daughter Maria and denied other realities of her...
School Library Journal, June 28, 2012
...What’s the book trying to say? In her April 12, 2004 New Yorker profile of L’Engle, Cynthia Zarin said of the book, “Published in 1962, it is—depending on how you look at it—science fiction, a warm tale of family life, a response to the Cold...
