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TALKING WITH PAULA FOX / Delightful Characters
1999
Overview
\"About four years ago, Jonathan Franzen-who eventually did the introduction for the new edition - wrote me a letter and said he couldn't get hold of copies of Desperate Characters for the class he was teaching at Swarthmore. He asked me to come give a reading to his class, which I did. Then Jonathan got an assignment for Harper's to write a long article about contemporary literature, in which he mentioned 'Desperate Characters' quite a lot. \"Tom Bissell, who is now my young editor at Norton, happened to read it, and began to pursue a copy of the novel. He couldn't find it- it was lost or missing from all the libraries. So finally he got my address from Jonathan, and wrote me a letter, asking would I send him a copy. So I instantly did it that very day. With the consequence that it arrived in the tiniest envelope-I squeezed it in, it was all I had and the local stationery store was closed. A week later Tom called me and said they were going to bring 'Desperate Characters' out again.\" [Paula] Fox speaks with me in a sunny corner of her four-story brownstone in Cobble Hill. At 76, she is vibrant and voluble. She has a deep, soft voice, with the enviably precise diction particular to her generation. While we talk, her elegance is only briefly compromised for the sake of cooing at a small tabby kitten she's recently taken in from the street.
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Newsday LLC
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