In 2015, a hefty, salmon-colored volume of stories by a writer who had died unknown 11 years earlier appeared and became a sensation. "A Manual for Cleaning Women" by Lucia Berlin was read with ...
Tucked away in Welcome Home, Lucia Berlin’s book of autobiographical sketches, is an Easter egg for the Berlin aficionado. It’s a list the fiction writer, who died in 2004, made in the 1980s, titled ...
EVENING IN PARADISE. By Lucia Berlin. FSG. 244 pages. $26. WELCOME HOME. By Lucia Berlin. FSG. 162 pages. $25. The great Lucia Berlin’s ruthless, empathic voice has found its audience. During her ...
The unique and captivating perspective prized by fans of Berlin (A Manual for Cleaning Women) is on haphazard but still-mesmerizing display in this nonfiction complement to her autobiographical short ...