I was wishing I had been allowed to do the interview myself, surely one could dig deeper if there was not so much embarrassment involved! But I liked her reflections on the unknowability of this sort of guarded self - it is something that makes the heart of all professional interviewers sink...
I have published four novels and four books of literary criticism; I'm currently at work on a book called FOR THE LOVE OF BROKEN THINGS: MY FATHER, EDWARD GIBBON AND THE RUINS OF ROME. I teach in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University.
Agreeing to do this interview was rather masochistic on L.K.'s part I think. Her embarrassment and discomfort are palpable.
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