NBCC/Paris Review Name that Author Contest #4
by admin | Nov-14-2008
For the next week or so, Critical Mass will 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 each day will be rewarded with a complete three-volume set of the collected Paris Review interviews. Send your answers to .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address). Please put “Name that Author” in the subject header.
Here is the fourth installment. Which NBCC award winner/finalist had this to say when questioned by the Paris Review interviewer?
“I could have never lived my life the way I have if I had children. There used to be a saying that every baby is a failed novel. I couldn’t have roamed or taken so many chances or lived a life of deprivation. I couldn’t have wasted vast chunks of my life….”
Send your answer to .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) and please put “Name that Author” in the subject heading. And keep an eye on Critical Mass for the winners.
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