· The Everlasting. From a supremely talented author comes this brilliant and inventive novel, set in Rome in four different centuries, that explores love in all its various incarnations and ponders elemental questions of good and evil, obedience and free will that connect four unforgettable lives. From a supremely talented author comes this brilliant and inventive novel, set in Rome in four different /5(97). · Katy Simpson Smith was born and raised in Jackson, Mississippi. She is the author of We Have Raised All of You: Motherhood in the South, , and the novels The Story of Land and Sea and Free Men. Her newest novel, The Everlasting, is out now. She lives in New Orleans, and currently serves as the Eudora Welty Chair for Southern Literature at Millsaps College. · Katy Simpson Smith is that writer, and The Everlasting -- a bold and ingenious novel spanning multiple time periods and characters with the ease of David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas— is full of rich and brilliant ideas about Rome, home, free will, sin, .
Katy Simpson Smith received a PhD in history from the University of North Carolina and an MFA from the Bennington Writing Seminars. She is the author of We Have Raised All of You: Motherhood in the South, , and the novels The Story of Land and Sea and Free Men. Her writing has also appeared in the New York Times Book Review, the Oxford American, Granta, Literary Hub, Garden Gun. On this episode of Sheltering, Katy Simpson Smith speaks with Maris Kreizman about her recently released novel, The www.doorway.ru talks about trying to read all of Proust in quarantine and deeming him "not the man for the moment," weeding her garden so much that it's now spotless, and the comfort of viewing our current times through a historical lens. After a languid start, The Everlasting builds cohesion and momentum through small but surprising moments of linkage among the characters' stories and the eras in which they live. A gifted stylist, Smith crafts the novel with a greater emphasis on lyricism than on any particular plotline, spinning a complex, memorable tale of the vast universe.
Katy Simpson Smith is that writer, and The Everlasting — a bold and ingenious novel spanning multiple time periods and characters with the ease of David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas—is full of rich and brilliant ideas about Rome, home, free will, sin, sensation, and civilization. It’s an incredible achievement. Katy Simpson Smith's novel The Everlasting is set entirely in Rome, but it takes place across multiple centuries, introducing us to separate storylines in , , , and Here are some other noteworthy books that are set in one location spanning multiple centuries. The Kingsbridge Series by Ken Follett. Katy Simpson Smith was born and raised in Jackson, Mississippi. She is the author of We Have Raised All of You: Motherhood in the South, , and the novels The Story of Land and Sea and Free Men. Her newest novel, The Everlasting, is out now. She lives in New Orleans, and currently serves as the Eudora Welty Chair for Southern Literature at Millsaps College.
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