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 seventh installment. Which NBCC award winner/finalist had this to say when questioned by the Paris Review interviewer?
"My nature is orderly and observant and scrupulous, and deeply introverted, so life wherever I attempt it turns out to be claustral. Live like a bourgeois, Flaubert suggested, but I was living like that long before I came across Flaubert’s remark."
Send your answer to nationalbookcritics@gmail.com and please put "Name that Author" in the subject heading. And keep an eye out for the winners and the next clue.
Excerpts from Volumes 1 and 2 at Readerville.
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