‘Sobel had encountered the story when she covered an academic conference on Harrison. Her article was spotted by a New York publishing house which asked her to write the book,’
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‘Rebecca proved that literary merit is not the antithesis of a good yarn; it is possible, perhaps preferable, to do both.’
‘I was playing. I take play very seriously. I was wrapping prose around poems, then freeing the poems.’
‘The definition of ‘literary fiction’ is strange, vague and controversial, and the term does a poor job, I feel, of linking my novels.’