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About Jay Parini
American writer and academic
Jay Parini is an American writer and academic, known for fiction, poetry, biography, and criticism. He has published 96 quotes on the site. His work includes novels centered on Leo Tolstoy, Walter Benjamin, Paul the Apostle, and Herman Melville, along with a novelized memoir about a road trip with Jorge Luis Borges. Across these books, he often works at the border between literary history and imagined life, drawing on figures from the canon and the idea of the writer as subject.
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- “The whole Christmas story was probably a later addition to the gospel narratives, presented only by the autho…”Jay Parini
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- “I have, for many years past, contemplated the noble races of red men who are now spread over these trackless…”George Catlin
- “Millions of Americans each year use our national forests to go hiking, fishing, hunting, camping, swimming, h…”Ric Keller
- “When the world has changed and the rivers run dry ad the forests grow brown will we realize that we don't run…”Veronica White
Explore Rivers
- “People who have recently lost someone have a certain look, recognizable maybe only to those who have seen tha…”Joan Didion
- “He's following me... He needs to have a secret but he can´t help telling the heat is going out of me. The hea…”Sarah Kane
- “Carnal apple, Woman filled, burning moon,dark smell of seaweed, crush of mud and light,what secret knowledge…”Pablo Neruda
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Books by Jay Parini
The last station
1990
Promised Land
2008
Empire of self
2015
John Steinbeck
1994
The Apprentice Lover
2002