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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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- “I had a year off, so my wife and I were heading to Italy to study Italian. We found a little house in a villa…”Jay Parini
- “'Bag of Bones' was a big, distorted yet wonderfully entertaining novel that rode high on the bestseller lists…”Jay Parini
- “Jesus remains the most influential person in history, one who has inspired untold followers for millennia.”Jay Parini
- “A. S. Byatt is a writer in mid-career whose time has certainly come, because 'Possession' is a tour de force…”Jay Parini
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- “If something that needs to be done that we don't feel confronting, we do it through the manager.”John Oates
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- “Forty states have sued tobacco companies over the costs of health care for residents on Medicaid and public a…”Bill Dedman
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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