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If You Can Live In Paris, Maybe You Should.

I Don't Just Want My Books To Be About The '30s And '40s. I Want Them To Read As If They Had Been Written Then. I Think Of Them As '40s Novels, Written In The Conservative Narrative Past.

I Write What I Call 'novels Of Consolation' For People Who Are Bright And Sophisticated.

You Can't Make Accommodations In Crucial Situations And Be Heroic.

I Expect That My Readers Have Been To Europe, I Expect Them To Have Some Feeling For A Foreign Language, I Expect Them To Have Read Books - There Are A Lot Of People Like That! That's My Audience.