A welcome surprise: more than 50 prose pieces, gathered together for the first time, by one of America's most revered and admired novelists and short story writers, whose articles, essays and cultural commentary — appearing in The New York Review of Books, The New York Times Book Review, The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The Guardian, Harper's Magazine and elsewhere — have been parsing the political, artistic and media idiom for the last three decades.

From Lorrie Moore's earliest reviews of novels by Margaret Atwood and Nora Ephron, to an essay on Ezra Edelman's 2016 O.J. Simpson documentary, and everything in between: this book features Moore on the writing of fiction (the work of V. S. Pritchett, Don DeLillo, Philip Roth, Joyce Carol Oates, Alice Munro, Stanley Elkin, Dawn Powell, Nicholson Baker et al.)...on the continuing unequal state of race in America...on the shock of the shocking GOP... on the dangers (and cruel truths) of celebrity marriages and love affairs...on the wilds of television (The Wire, Friday Night Lights, Into the Abyss, Girls, Homeland, True Detective, Making a Murderer)... on the (d)evolving environment...on terrorism, the historical imagination and the world's newest form of novelist... on the lesser (and larger) lives of biography and the midwifery between art and life (Anaïs Nin, Marilyn Monroe, John Cheever, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Eudora Welty, Bernard Malamud, among others)...and on the high art of being Helen Gurley Brown... and much, much more. (From Bond Street Books)

See What Can Be Done is available in April 2018.