This week Critical Mass continues to publish excerpts from interviews with former National Book Critics Circle award winners and finalists included in the venerable Paris Review "Writers at Work" series; the third volume has just been published by Picador. The reader who first correctly identifies the author will be rewarded with a complete three-volume set of the collected Paris Review interviews. Send your answers to nationalbookcritics@gmail.com. Please put "Name that Author" in the subject header. Here is the sixth installment. Which NBCC award winner/finalist had this to say when questioned by the Paris Review interviewer?
"I lived in the suburbs…the men didn’t like you to talk, and the women didn’t like it either. Then I moved to more of a mixed suburb, not all young couples and I made great friends there. We talked about books and scandal and laughed at things like high-school girls. That’s something I’d like to write about and haven’t, that subversive society of young women, all keeping each other alive."
Send your answer to nationalbookcritics@gmail.com and please put "Name that Author" in the subject heading.
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