Letter
Katharine Weber
Katharine Weber’s novel, The Music Lesson, is published by Phoenix House. She teaches fiction-writing at Yale.
Letter
Back to the Ironing Board
15 April 1999
In his review of my novel The Music Lesson (LRB, 15 April), Theo Tait criticises my depiction of the dramatic actions of an IRA splinter group on the grounds that ‘the fit with contemporary Irish politics’ is ‘offensively loose’, adding that in the late Nineties the narrator’s aim – ‘to force powerful people to pay attention and take decisive action at last’ – is a ‘curious objective’...
Pieces about Katharine Weber in the LRB
Back to the Ironing-Board: Weber and Norman
Theo Tait, 15 April 1999
In his unfortunate account of a Ter Borch brothel scene, Goethe earnestly identifies the leering john as a ‘noble, knightly father’ admonishing his wayward but honourable daughter...
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