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Last November I was having dinner with David Plante, an American novelist who 
lives in Italy and just happened to ask if he had any fiction he wanted to publish. At the end of the evening, he emailed me a copy of a novel called American Stranger. I read it the next morning in one sitting and finished the novel in tears. [Read more…]
I would like to believe that writers achieve celebrity because their work reflects a depth of thought and intelligence. That these writers see their fame as incidental to the excellence of their craft and, unlike actors, they don’t behave any differently once they have achieved the pinnacle of success. Most actors, after all, aren’t known to be deep thinkers, and therefore we tend to forgive their public outbursts, drug binges and generally bad behavior as by-products and delusions of their fame. [Read more…]
Patricia Highsmith avoided the company of other writers; she felt there was little chance of hearing a good, usable anecdote. Writers, she said, are generally careful to guard any good material for their own use. [Read more…]