He's able to juggle ten balls where most people can juggle three or four. Nabokov has always been and remains one of my favorite writers. Why do you feel that he is "much better than everybody else "? A: In all honesty, I was never out of the fold. Q: You say in your introduction that "sober middle-age had made me less susceptible to lush lyricism." In a way, editing this collection brought you back into the proverbial fold where he was concerned. How did I choose? The way people choose their mates: for intelligence, beauty, humor, and a sense that they'll be around for the long haul. The only way I could sleep at night was to remind myself it was all for a good cause. (Happily, "The Dead" is in public domain in the U.S.) The first thing you confront when you compile an anthology like this, however, is the painful obligation to exclude wonderful work. The UK edition lacks James Joyce's "The Dead" for similar reasons. I picked it, but we weren't able to the secure the rights to reprint it, even though the anthology supports a charitable cause. Q: What was the process of elimination like? Can you discuss which stories you decided to leave out? A: The story I miss most is "Brokeback Mountain" by Annie Proulx. 826 Chicago is part of the network of seven writing centers across the United States affiliated with 826 National, a non-profit organization dedicated to supporting students ages 6 to 18 with their creative and expository writing skills, and to helping teachers inspire their students to write.Ī Q&A with Jeffrey Eugenides The author of bestsellers The Virgin Suicides and Middlesex, Jeffrey Eugenides talks about his turn as editor of My Mistress's Sparrow is Dead, with Andrea Hoag, a book critic in Lawrence, Kansas, whose reviews have appeared in the Los Angeles Times Book Review, Film Comment, and Kirkus Reviews. Let everybody else suffer."-Jeffrey Eugenides, from the introduction to My Mistress's Sparrow Is Dead All proceeds from My Mistress's Sparrow is Dead will go directly to fund the free youth writing programs offered by 826 Chicago.
Read these love stories in the safety of your single bed. I offer this book, then, as a cure for lovesickness and an antidote to adultery. It is perhaps only in reading a love story (or in writing one) that we can simultaneously partake of the ecstasy and agony of being in love without paying a crippling emotional price. Love stories, nearly without exception, give love a bad name. Love stories depend on disappointment, on unequal births and feuding families, on matrimonial boredom and at least one cold heart. A love story can never be about full possession.
But when it comes to love stories, things are simpler.
"When it comes to love, there are a million theories to explain it.
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