<p><a href=“http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/13/books/review/13cover.html[/url]”>http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/13/books/review/13cover.html</a></p>
<p>Another in a great line of Barnard writers.</p>
<p>I'll have to pick that up...</p>
<p>My own personal rank of Barnard authors I've read:
Sigrid Nunez
Ann Brashares (young books, but not dumb in the least)
Edwidge Danticat
Jhumpa Lahiri
Erica Jong
Mary Gordon
Anna Quindlen</p>
<p>(honestly, I think Anna Quindlen is TOTALLY overrated)
I've heard Cristina Garcia is really good, too. Anyone have any Barnard author thoughts? :) I need a next book.</p>
<p>I have to agree with you about Quindlen. I have nothing pithy to add other than I am VERY glad to see you back on these boards and to wish you the very best in grad school!!!</p>
<p>Okay, read Monkey Hunting, and now have to add Christina Garcia to near the top of the list. I'll give her an official ranking after I read her other two novels. </p>
<p>Thanks, churchmusicmom! I passed my generals, and got an RA job with a prof I love, so things are going well. :-D</p>
<p>More publicity for Ms. Pessl. Turns out she was a transfer from Northwestern and views the Great Books as a "rite of passage":</p>
<p>xfers represent, y'all. Some of Barnard's best students and most famous alums were transfers. Like me! :-D</p>
<p>in your list of authors, i wouldn't leave out Zora Neale Hurston.</p>
<p>she's kinda a big deal :)</p>
<p>I can't read her, though. I've tried, but I HATE anything in the vernacular. It's sad, because I love most of the themes of southern literature, but I have to stick with people like Dorothy Allison instead of William Faulkner. :( Though I have issues with Faulkner besides that...</p>
<p>Edit: And she was a fellow Floridian, which makes me wish even more to like her. And invented "cool." ;)</p>