When Friends Stop Being Frank And Useful

The First Divorce In The World May Have Been A Tragedy, But The Hundred-millionth Is Not Necessarily One.

Chic Is A Convent For Unloved Women.

The Moment A Book Is Lent I Begin To Miss It.

Ruefulness Is One Of The Classical Tones Of American Fiction. It Fosters A Native, Deglamorized Form Of Anxiety.

In Novels, I Said, People Are Transfigured By Love. They’re Elevated, Made Different, Lifted Out Of Their Ordinariness…it’s Not So Much To Ask, I Said. I Just Want Love To Live Up To Its Publicity.