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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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- “In every phase of the automotive industry, certain factors have been more important than all others in relati…”Raymond Loewy
- “The market came with the dawn of civilization and it is not an invention of capitalism. If it leads to improv…”Mikhail Gorbachev
- “... the invention of the mechanical clock in medieval Europe. This was one of the great inventions in this hi…”David S. Landes
Explore Letters
- “Every week I get letters from people worldwide who feel that the possibilian point of view represents their u…”David Eagleman
- “But just understand the difference between a man like Reardon and a man like me. He is the old type of unprac…”George Gissing
- “I get letters from people saying one of the things they like best about what I've done since 'Bewitched' is t…”Elizabeth Montgomery
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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