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ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: What is the first thing ever that you remember writing?
About 20 of those books persist in a Ziploc bag in my daughter’s room in Brooklyn.
Credit: Brigitte Lacombe; Knopf Doubleday
What is the last book that made you cry?
Which book is at the top of your current To-Read list?
Where do you write?
This summer I’m writing at a writer friend’s desk in Blue Hill, Maine.
A few years ago I finished a draft ofThe Flight Portfolioat another friend’s desk.
I feel like I always do my best work at other people’s desks.
At the MacDowell Colony I wrote at a desk used by Richard Yates and Susan Minot.
At Yaddo I wrote at Sylvia Plath’s desk.
I don’t have a desk of my own at home.
I have to hope so.
Which book made you a forever reader?
What is a snack you couldn’t write without?
If you could change one thing about any of your books, what would it be?
What is your favorite part ofThe Flight Portfolio?
I relished writing a scene of naked revenge.
What was the hardest plot point or character to write?
But I think it’s accurate.)
