Wednesday, November 30, 2005

I think this appeared a few weeks ago

but I've only belatedly come across it: a very nice (though slightly mortifying--basically, I read it thinking "God, did I really say that?") profile of me in the Columbia Record. The journalist who wrote it was great, we had a really funny long phone conversation that was much more enjoyable than I expected.

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  1. Oooh -- I can't wait until BREEDING is ready for general consumption! It sounds brilliant and delectable. XX, Lauren

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  2. One of my favorite moments in _Sense & Sensibility_ is when Elinor, overwhelmed by Mrs. Jennings, takes comfort in Lady Middleton’s indifference: “She was sometimes worried down by officious condolence to rate good-breeding as more indispensable to comfort than good-nature….”

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  3. That's one of my favorite moments too--it's an amazing sentence....

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