The award-winning writer publishes The Golden Age (Sexto Piso), the final piece of her monumental trilogy about the last 100 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Toward the end of Jane Smiley’s new novel, “Lucky,” its narrator takes a moment to flip through her mother’s record collection. It ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A copy of Jane Smiley's latest, "Lucky," sat in my lap — the last page read, the book closed. "Well, huh," I thought. "What the ...

In a wide-ranging and detailed, yet somewhat flat memoir, Smiley (A Thousand Acres ; Moo ; etc.) examines the nuances of horses' lives and of the people who build ...

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Eliza McCracken doesn’t want to marry Peter Cargill, the extravagantly well-mannered and apparently well-connected man her parents have foisted on her. He is too old—38 to her 18—and she’s sweet on ...

It’s hard to overstate the pleasure of reading Jane Smiley — especially, for me, her essays. A new collection, “The Questions that Matter Most,” offers a case in point. Line for line, Smiley delivers ...

On this episode of “Literary Arts: The Archive Project,” we’re reaching back more than 30 years into the archive to feature the prolific novelist Jane Smiley from a Portland Arts & Lectures event in ...

Jane Smiley's latest novel, "A Dangerous Business," follows two young prostitutes in Gold Rush California as they try to solve the mystery of their fellow brothel workers disappearing. When it comes ...

AMES, Iowa -- Jane Smiley, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "A Thousand Acres" and former Iowa State University faculty member, returns to her old stomping grounds in Ames to share in a ...

After the first dozen pages, the title of Jane Smiley’s incongruously cozy new murder mystery, “A Dangerous Business,” appears to refer to the potential perils of prostitution during the last years of ...

It’s all about the work. That’s the secret to Jane Smiley’s sustained success as a writer of literary fiction. As you’ll see in this candid conversation, Smiley was honored to receive a Pulitzer Prize ...