{"id":64,"date":"2012-04-07T22:23:59","date_gmt":"2012-04-07T22:23:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mariannatorgovnick.com\/?page_id=64"},"modified":"2012-04-07T22:23:59","modified_gmt":"2012-04-07T22:23:59","slug":"books","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/dev.jackmakesthings.com\/tor\/books\/","title":{"rendered":"My Books"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cMarianna Torgovnick is one of our most brilliant and probing cultural critics.\u201d<\/p>\n

Joyce Carol Oates<\/p>\n

\u201cA kind of gift to its own culture, a guide to the perplexed.\u201d<\/p>\n

Arthur C. Danto, NY Times Book Review<\/p>\n

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I write with two things in mind. First, that writing should come from the heart as well as the brain — and it should really matter. Second, that I should not leave out the juicy things I discover along the way. As a professor, I fill in and revise after I\u2019ve done research. But writing is an intuitive process for me and one I love.<\/p>\n

You\u2019ll find here two e-books: my first, well reviewed book about how novels end, Closure in the Novel; and my second book, where I let loose my lifelong love of painting and art as well as great novels, The Visual Arts, Pictorialism, and the Novel. If the Amazon link takes you to a hard cover, check back soon for an e-book at a low price.<\/p>\n

You\u2019ll also find here Gone Primitive and Primitive Passions, juicy explorations of why a civilized \u201cus\u201d both fears and yearns for a primitive \u201cthem.\u201d Finally, you\u2019ll find The War Complex, a tough-minded rethinking of my parents\u2019 war, World War II and how it echoes in our minds after 9\/11.<\/p>\n

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