The Art of Fiction No. 252 (Interviewer) Issue no. 239 Spring 2022 “I suppose that my work is always mourning something, the loss of a paradise—not the thing that comes after you die, but the thing that you had before.”
The Art of Fiction No. 87 (Interviewer) Issue no. 96 Summer 1985 Explaining her remark that Henry James was “the greatest American female novelist”: ”Sometimes I try to lighten the gloom of discussions but I notice that no one laughs. Instead you see a few people writing down the name.”
For Snow Queens Who Have Considered Suicide Because Paul Newman in the First Twenty Minutes of Paris Blues Is Too Much Issue no. 240 Summer 2022 I leave, for now, that scene that switched on a certain channel in my being.