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Jane Alison

Jane Alison
Jane Alison is the author of The Sisters Antipodes and the craft book Meander, Spiral, Explode: Design and Pattern in Narrative, among other titles, and she teaches creative writing at the University of Virginia. Her new novel, Villa E, about Modernist Irish designer Eileen Gray, has just come out in paperback.


Immaculate, Erotic and Quintessentially Modern: On Edna O’Brien’s Night

Jane Alison In Praise of a Little-Known Novel From Ireland’s Foremost Chronicler of the Feminine Experience
June 17, 2025  By Jane Alison
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A Monstrous Spiral: How Narrative Form Can Bring a Story to Life

Jane Alison on Fictionalizing the Tumultuous and Toxic Relationship Between Architects Eileen Gray and Le Corbusier
August 6, 2024  By Jane Alison
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Jane Alison on Raymond Carver
and Tobias Wolff

Two Close Readings: Wavelets
April 18, 2019  By Jane Alison
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