Lindsay Stern is an American writer and essayist. She is the author of the novel The Study of Animal Languages and the novella Town of Shadows.[1]
Lindsay Stern | |
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| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Amherst College, University of Iowa, Yale University |
| Genre | Fiction |
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Education edit
Stern received a B.A. in English and Philosophy at Amherst College.[2] She graduated with an M.F.A in fiction from the Iowa Writers' Workshop[3] and began a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature at Yale University.[4]
Literary career edit
Stern published Town of Shadows with Scrambler Books in 2012.[5] She wrote the book while at Amherst College.[6]
Her debut full-length novel, The Study of Animal Languages, was published by Viking in 2019.[7] It follows two professors in a New England campus who are married to each other.[8]
Kirkus Reviews wrote: "Stern’s brittle comedy of highfalutin intellectual theories evolves into a feeling portrait of a gifted man coming face to face with his limitations."[9] Publishers Weekly suggested in a mixed review that the "intellectually teeming prose makes for a thought-provoking novel, though it’s more successful asking questions such as, 'Can voles experience heartbreak?' than depicting people breaking each other’s hearts."[10]
Booklist called it a "jittery, intelligent. . . depiction of relationships in which the parties involved experience a distressing inability to communicate."[11] The New York Journal of Books wrote: "Though she often depends on facile academic stereotypes, Stern reveals the ways in which scientists may try to deploy objective methods, but are ultimately human."[12]
For Washington Independent Review of Books, "What pulls The Study of Animal Languages toward its unexpectedly satisfactory conclusion (though not a by-the-book happy ending) is a series of false steps that require Prue and Ivan to face inner truths that neither character had thought silently to themselves, let alone proclaimed aloud to each other."[13]
Stern writes for Smithsonian Magazine.[14]
Bibliography edit
- Town of Shadows (Scribler Books, 2012)
- The Study of Animal Languages (Viking, 2019)
References edit
- ^ Rybeck, Benjamin. "Lindsay Stern". Kirkus Reviews. Retrieved May 31, 2023.
- ^ Mills, Adam (25 September 2012). "Interview: Lindsay Stern on Town of Shadows and Strangeness". Weird Fiction Review. Retrieved May 30, 2023.
- ^ Weissmiller, Jan. "Live from Prairie Lights: Lindsay Stern in Conversation with Charles D'Ambrosio". University of Iowa. Retrieved May 31, 2023.
- ^ Gonzalez, Susan (2 May 2019). "Characters struggle to communicate and connect in Ph.D. student's novel". Yale News. Retrieved May 31, 2023.
- ^ Godby, Ben (13 February 2013). "Town of Shadows by Lindsay Stern". Strange Horizons. Retrieved May 31, 2023.
- ^ Mills, Adam (25 September 2012). "Interview: Lindsay Stern on Town of Shadows and Strangeness". Weird Fiction Review. Retrieved May 30, 2023.
- ^ "The Books We're Looking Forward to in 2019". Vanity Fair. 21 December 2018. Retrieved May 31, 2023.
- ^ "Ten Questions for Lindsay Stern". Poets & Writers. 19 February 2019. Retrieved May 31, 2023.
- ^ "The Study of Animal Languages". Kirkus Reviews. Retrieved May 31, 2023.
- ^ "The Study of Animal Languages". Publishers Weekly. Retrieved May 31, 2023.
- ^ Quamme, Margaret. "The Study of Animal Languages". Booklist. Retrieved May 31, 2023.
- ^ Torti, Sylvia. "The Study of Animal Languages: A Novel". New York Journal of Books. Retrieved May 31, 2023.
- ^ Macomber, Kristin H. "Review: The Study of Animal Languages". Washington Independent Review of Books. Retrieved May 31, 2023.
- ^ Stern, Lindsay. "What Can Bonobos Teach Us About the Nature of Language?". Smithsonian Magazine. Retrieved May 31, 2023.