5/20/2023 0 Comments Dare me based on book![]() ![]() All that time, I wrote hundreds of pages, two different novels born from the sheer desperation to remember the writer I’d always been-decisive, if nothing else. ![]() And then I had two children, and in between having them, I took on my first full-time teaching job. Time spent in seat is directly proportional to books written. Until recently, I was a firm devotee of the butt-in-seat school of writing. ![]() As her compliments unfold, it occurs to me that I am holding under my arm a galley of Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri, and that my hair is in a low bun, as in the author photos of Jhumpa Lahiri, and so I must gently break it to this Jhumpa Lahiri superfan that I am not Jhumpa Lahiri. That my writing has meant a great deal to her, so much so that she’s almost moved to tears. I pass through the lobby, and as I’m about to leave through the building’s revolving doors, a woman, coming in, stops me to say that she loves my writing, loves my book. It’s glorious and overwhelming, all the glamorous people, all the galleys that are being heaped into my arms and stuffed in my tote bag before I say goodbye. My lovely editor invites me to their office at Midtown to meet her as well as the fleet of people who are responsible for bringing a book into the world. And you, dear writers, friends of writers, and debutantes, you are the ones I’ve been waiting for. ![]() There’s a story I’ve been waiting to tell for fifteen years, and which I’ve never shared publicly, partly because I’ve been waiting for the right audience to receive it. ![]()
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