Novels – Janet Ruth Heller

Obsessions and Bipolar Disorder in Jaimy Gordon’s Novel Lord of Misrule

Post author:Janet Ruth Heller
Post published:January 10, 2025
Post category:bipolar disorder Fiction Literary Magazines Literature Novels obsessions Psychological Issues scholarly articles scholarly articles about creative writing by Janet Ruth Heller

Janet Ruth Heller's article of literary criticism "Obsessions and Bipolar Disorder in Jaimy Gordon’s Novel Lord of Misrule" appears in the Pennsylvania Literary Journal, volume 16, issue 3 (Fall, 2024) on pages 162-193. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DRTCT2K4 I highly recommend this wonderful novel about the people and animals involved in horseracing in a rural area. It won the National Book Award for Fiction in 2010. #literarycriticism #obsession #bipolardisorder #novel #jaimygordon Cover of the Pennsylvania Literary Journal's fall 2024 issue with my article about Lord of Misrule

Interview with Bonnie Jo Campbell about her new novel The Waters

Post author:Janet Ruth Heller
Post published:September 5, 2024
Post category:Fiction Interviews Ladies' Library in Kalamazoo Literature Novels

On August 26, I interviewed author Bonnie Jo Campbell at the Ladies' Library Association of Kalamazoo about her new novel The Waters. She spent eight years writing this book, which focuses on a family living in a rural area of Southwest Michigan. The novel has intriguing characters and covers a lot of ground. I highly recommend The Waters! https://www.bonniejocampbell.net Cover of The Waters by Bonnie Jo Campbell

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I love books by British writers P. D. James, Seamus Heaney, S. T. Coleridge, Jane Austen, William Wordsworth, Robert Browning, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, George Eliot, W. B. Yeats;

American writers Judy Blume, Edna St. Vincent Millay, T. S. Eliot, Maxine Kumin, Jim Daniels, Mong-Lan, Robert Hayden, Langston Hughes, Naomi Shihab Nye, Alberto Ríos, Gail B. Griffin, Jerry Spinelli, Jane Yolen, Kathryn Erskine, Gary D. Schmidt, Adrienne Rich, Judith Minty, Gwendolyn Brooks, Marge Piercy, Grace Paley, Alicia Ostriker, Jaimy Gordon; South African writer Athol Fugard;

Israeli writers Chaim Nachman Bialik, Yehudah Amichai, Rachel Bluwstein, Chaim Guri, S. Y. Agnon; and Hispanic writers Sor Juana, Federico García Lorca, Ruben Darío, Antonio Machado, Jorge Guillén, Pedro Salinas, and Dámaso Alonso.

I also love Japanese haiku, especially those by Matsuo Bashō.

My writing has been influenced by many other authors, including British writers Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Jane Austen, William Wordsworth, Robert Browning, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, George Eliot, W. B. Yeats;

American writers Edna St. Vincent Millay, T. S. Eliot, Maxine Kumin, Adrienne Rich, Judith Minty, Gwendolyn Brooks;

Israeli writers Chaim Nachman Bialik, Yehudah Amichai, Rachel Bluwstein, Chaim Guri, S. Y. Agnon, and Hispanic writers Sor Juana, Federico Garcia Lorca, Ruben Dario, Antonio Machado, Jorge Guillen, Pedro Salinas, and Damaso Alonso.