Talk:Alice McDermott

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Johns Hopkins U

Taken from http://www.jhu.edu/~writsem/faculty03.html.

Charles Matthews 10:09, 8 Nov 2004 (UTC)

As of 2012-03-27 she remains listed in the JHU faculty directory as Richard A Macksey Professor for

Distinguished Teaching in the Humanities.

Her 2012 "endowed chair" at St. John's University needs citation, clarification, disambiguation. Does it refer to academic year 2012/2013? Is it St. John's College in Annapolis MD, consistent with a position at JHU in Baltimore?

--P64 (talk) 16:11, 27 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

American Book Award

This annual award to a set of about twenty authors, editors, etc, is often confused with the annual National Book Awards, currently four in number. Some explanation: American Book Awards#Other ABA.

McDermott and Charming Billy did win both (see the References given). That almost never happens, but wikipedia editors don't know why not. Some testimony, some confusion: Talk:American Book Awards#Who wins? --P64 (talk) 16:11, 27 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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Bibliography

I have commenced a tidy-up of the Bibliography section using cite templates and tables for short stories, poems and/or book reviews. Capitalization and punctuation follow standard cataloguing rules in AACR2 and RDA, as much as Wikipedia templates allow it. ISBNs and other persistent identifiers, where available, are commented out, but still available for reference. This is a work in progress; feel free to continue. Sunwin1960 (talk) 02:31, 23 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I chose to remove the "Short fiction" section. These are not short stories. They are novel excerpts from the novels Someone and The Ninth Hour. Just because a piece of fiction appears in The New Yorker does not make it a short story. In fact, many of the pieces of fiction that The New Yorker publishes are novel excerpts. Sometimes this is not known until after the fact, but often times it is quite obvious. One way to tell this is if the biography of the writer that accompanies a piece of fiction says "(Writer) will release ___ (novel) in December." Still, sometimes a writer will publish a novel excerpt before a novel is ready, and thus it will only be known that it was a novel except later on. And yet, if a short story is not part of a novel at the time of publication, but later becomes part of a novel, most writers would never publish it as a short story in a collection, like the chart here anticipates. This is certainly distinct for a situation where an author might publish a novel and then later publish a story that didn't make it into the novel. Jeffrey Eugenides did this with his recent collection Fresh Complain that had "deleted" excerpts from some of his novels. Jf2 (talk) 15:00, 13 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]