Monthly Archives: October 2011

The last paragraph of Jeffrey Eugenides’ “How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Write ‘The Marriage Plot’”: “That’s the intellectual background of The Marriage Plot. But you don’t write a novel from an idea, or at least I don’t. You … Continue reading →

“It’s tougher to be a young writer today than when I was a young writer. I don’t think my first novel would have been published today as I submitted it. I don’t think an editor would have read 50 pages … Continue reading →