My introduction to the conversation with Donna Tartt - Maud Newton
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By popular demand, here’s a lightly edited version of my introduction to the conversation Donna Tartt and I had after her reading last night. • There are very few novelists writing today — or in any era, I suppose — of whom it can be said with certainty that they will be read in a hundred or two hundred years. . . .
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Ancestor Trouble, Maud Newton
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Ancestor Trouble, Maud Newton
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Ancestor Trouble, Maud Newton
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