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...though Eugenides is an extremely meticulous writer, he recalled how good fortune prodded him into writing “Middlesex”—a novel brimming with themes of fate and destiny. “I was at the artistic colony Yaddo, trying to write the opening with the burning of Smyrna in 1922 without having done my research. But it just sounded so false. I was desperate; I thought I had to give [“Middlesex”] up, so I wandered downstairs where there was a stack of books left for anyone?...
...even Denise A. Jillson, executive director of the Harvard Square Business Association (HSBA) and mastermind behind the pink flamingo scheme, was astonished when The Saratogian reported that Fester, one of the flamingos, had made its way to Yaddo, N.Y. on July...
...past and her present. Borrowed Finery comes at a time when Fox’s adult fiction is enjoying a rather remarkable resurgence, spurred in large part by the newly prominent author Jonathan Franzen, who discovered Fox’s 1970 novel Desperate Characters in the library at Yaddo, the writers’ colony in upstate New York. Franzen pushed for its reissue, calling it “obviously superior to any novel by Fox’s contemporaries John Updike, Philip Roth and Saul Bellow.” Professionally, she is a Newbery Award-winning children?...
...thoughts as a novel. I'd written one--Harry, the Rat with Women--a few years before. It had some success, but I hated the writing of it. It wasn't a natural form for me. When I had 300 pages of my new novel down, I went to Yaddo, the writers' colony in upstate New York, to finish it. But after I'd been there 24 hours and read through it, I knew there wasn't a book there. I either had to go home--which I couldn't do because my friends had thrown me a big going...
...would like to be able to question without having someone accuse me of disloyalty,' she wrote to Granville Hicks at the New Masses.. . This letter [and one other] are virtually the only references to the Soviet purges in Josie's letters.. . Josie was at Yaddo during the announcement of the Nazi-Soviet pact. A group photo taken the day before the invasion of Poland shows her face dark with worry. Why didn't she 'break' publicly with the Communist Party when she was so 'disillusioned' with it privately...