NBCC/Paris Review “Name that Author” Contest #7
by admin | Nov-19-2008
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 .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address). 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 .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) 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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