Brenda Webster's Reviews
Reviews of Brenda’s Work
Published by psychoPEDIA
Vienna Triangle is a brilliant novel that combines fact with the author's ingenious imagination to bring to life the historical figures of Freud and his disciples through the...
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Published by psychoPEDIA
Vienna Triangle is a brilliant novel that combines fact with the author's ingenious imagination to bring to life the historical figures of Freud and his disciples through the...
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May.03.2009
Published by mySanAntionio.com
As in her previous three novels, Brenda Webster brings to the fore the complicated and compelling entanglements of the study of Freudian psychology in "Vienna Triangle," newly...
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Apr.01.2009
Published by New Pages.com
Brenda Webster's new novel, Vienna Triangle, employs the historical context of the early psychoanalysis movement to create a mystery that explores the dark side of intellectual...
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Feb.27.2009
Published by www.libraryjournal.com/
Webster, Brenda. Vienna Triangle. Wings. 2009. 228p. ISBN 978-0-916727-50-5. pap. $16.95. F
Verdict: Webster effectively uses her knowledge of psychology, also displayed in her...
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Mar.01.2009
Published by Confrontation Issue No. 102/103 - Winter 08/Spring 09
from page 219-220
This novel dares to combine the texture of insight that fiction brings with the solidity of research that imposes a hierarchy of factual priority. It is...
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Feb.16.2009
Published by Publisher's Weekly
"Both smart and charming, Webster's latest delves into the history of psychology with sordid details and a surprising conclusion, in which Kate may lose more than she gains."
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Jan.29.2009
Published by Laura Gonzalez
There is a genre called psychoanalytic fiction and I have recently read two examples. The first one was Jed Rubenfeld’s The interpretation of murder; the second Brenda Webster’s...
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Dec.15.2008
Published by Booklist
In a sometimes uneasy amalgam of psychoanalytic history and feminist fiction, Webster, in her fourth novel (after The Beheading Game, 2006), summons Freud’s inner circle. Young...
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Feb.09.2009
Published by The Rumpus
The creation of an historical work of fiction is problematic at best; populating a balanced narrative with well-known personages requires a writer who takes chances. Brenda...
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Jan.13.2009
Published by San Francisco Chronicle
Brenda Webster's new novel, "Vienna Triangle," offers a fascinating glimpse into the origins of the psychoanalytic movement. She explores some of the most brilliant members of...
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Published by Poetry Flash
When it comes to writing quality literature neither age nor gender should be a barrier. Brenda Webster... proves the point...the concept is refreshingly daring... an underlying...
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Mar.03.2006
Published by Pacific Sun
In the medieval epic Gawain and the Green Knight, a monstrous knight, all in green, appears at King Arthur's Camelot. Anyone there may chop off his head, if, a year...
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Published by The Washington Blade
How does a straight grandmother end up writing a gay male love story? Not intentionally, in the case of Brenda Webster, a 69-year-old writer from Berkeley, Calif....
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Mar.01.2006
Published by Out Magazine
Anyone who has done a stretch of psychotherapy will tell you that life is pretty much a decades-long project of reckoning with our parents. Webster deftly portrays the...
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About Brenda
Brenda Webster was born in New York City, educated at Swarthmore College, Columbia University, and University of California, Berkeley, where she earned her Ph.D. She is a freelance writer, critic, and translater who splits her time between Berkeley and Rome,...
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