Lord of misrule novel5/11/2023 ![]() ![]() The story that she tells in the novel is not a pretty one, and as a result, some who love racing embrace the book’s popularity uneasily. ![]() ![]() She’s been successful on both counts, recognized in both the literary and the racing world, though perhaps with some ambivalence from both crowds. ![]() She also wanted to write a book that reached the racing crowd. She’s a Literary Type, and as she told me in December for an article that I wrote for Thoroughbred Times, she wanted to write a literary book. Jaimy Gordon is an associate professor of English at Western Michigan University, a writer of poetry, short stories, novels, and essays. And if you’re a racing type, you can’t ignore a brand new book on a big stage, a book that gets mainstream coverage in the papers and on the radio, a book that has Janet Maslin explaining what a claiming race is. If you’re a literary type, you can’t ignore the National Book Award winner, even if you’re not a racing fan. In 2010, my racing and literary worlds collided spectacularly when Jaimy Gordon’s Lord of Misrule came out of nowhere to win the National Book Award, catapulting both book and author right into this country’s literary conversation and splendidly blending books and the backstretch. ![]()
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