Book Reviewer and Essayist

Susie Powell Currie

8 articles 2003–2010

Susie Powell Currie is a writer who contributed book reviews and cultural essays to The Weekly Standard between 2003 and 2010. Her pieces covered a range of literary and cultural topics, from novels and memoirs to broader social commentary.

Mondo Balto

October 18, 2010 · Susie Powell Currie, Magazine, Books and Arts

 

Aging Peter Pans

February 5, 2007 · Susie Powell Currie, Magazine, Books and Arts

Rejuvenile

Accidental Novel

July 24, 2006 · Susie Powell Currie, Magazine, Books and Arts

Digging to America

Life Without Father

December 6, 2004 · Susie Powell Currie, Magazine, Books and Arts

Home-Alone America

Bright Debut

June 16, 2003 · Susie Powell Currie, Magazine, Books and Arts

Amanda Bright@home

Days of Wine and Daisies

April 14, 2003 · Susie Powell Currie, Magazine, Books and Arts

IN THE 1960 MOVIE "Please Don't Eat the Daisies," the theater critic Larry Mackay says of his new job at a major New York newspaper, "There's something about getting to the top of your field, even if it's only the bottom of the top." The author Jean Kerr, who died in January at age seventy-nine,…

The Goddess that Failed

February 3, 2003 · Susie Powell Currie, Magazine, Books and Arts

The Bitch in the House 26 Women Tell the Truth About Sex, Solitude, Work, Motherhood, and Marriage ed. by Cathi Hanauer William Morrow, 304 pp., $23.95 "YOU WHO COME of a younger and happier generation . . . may not know what I mean by the Angel in the House," wrote Virginia Woolf. "She was…