SUSAN OSBORN
is the critically acclaimed author of multiple books, essays, and articles. Her latest work is titled Scotoma: Why We Don’t See Incest and Why We Should.
Susan Osborn’s books have been awarded praise for their discerning intelligence and her willingness to tackle difficult subjects. Her last book of essays, Elizabeth Bowen: New Critical Perspectives was hailed as a “tour de force;” her last novel, Surviving the Wreck was touted as “a work of genius.” Her literary criticism, essays, and articles have appeared in over thirty publications including The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Village Voice, Modern Fiction Studies, and Rhetoric Review. Her current work, Scotoma: Why We Don’t See Incest and Why We Should, examines the cultural blind spot that keeps us from seeing and talking about the reality and prevalence of incest. For over two decades, she was a member of the English department faculty at Rutgers University where she taught writing and literature. Currently, she serves as Director of The Writing Center of Princeton.
PRAISE FOR OSBORN’S WORK
“WELL-MODERATED [AND] DANGEROUSLY INTELLECTUAL…A TOUR DE FORCE.”
— Ian d’ Alton, The Irish Review
“SPLENDID…OSBORN…ADVANCE[S] A SERIES OF SOPHISTICATED CLAIMS ABOUT MIMESIS…AN IMPRESSIVE CONTRIBUTION.”
— Matthew Brown, Irish Studies Review
“…QUITE SIMPLY, A WORK OF GENIUS. NEVER BEFORE HAVE THE INTRICACIES OF FAMILY BONDS BEEN SO HONESTLY AND SO COMPELLINGLY RENDERED.”
—Louise De Salvo, author of Vertigo and Conceived with Malice
“THIS MASTERFULLY EXECUTED NOVEL. . . . DEALS WITH THE HARROWING CONSEQUENCES OF GROWING UP IN A FAMILY WHERE EVERYONE TURNS TO THE WRONG PERSON FOR AFFECTION
. . . VERY ENGAGING; HIGHLY RECOMMENDED.”
— Library Journal
“A tour de force”
— Ian d’Alton, The Irish Review
“Surviving the Wreck is a chilling novel about the silences in ‘normal’ families, the pain behind those silences, and the need to turn silence into speech.”
—Alicia Ostriker,
former New York State Poet Laureate
