Lorrie Moore

Just below the surface

by Keith Taylor

posted 1/1/2003

Although she has written a couple of novels, Lorrie Moore is best known as a writer of short stories populated with the middle-aged and the middle-class, with lawyers and businessmen and college professors — along with the occasional house painter. Her characters are often witty and bored: "I married my husband because I thought it would be a great

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