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“It’s like getting a postcard from inside the other’s head without even having to talk about it,” says the NBC News correspondent, whose new book is “Rough Draft,” a memoir. “Because who wants to talk about it?”
The novelist and story writer, whose new book is “Sleepwalk,” wishes more authors would write about ‘anything other than themselves. I love writers … who use some aspects of their own experience to tell a far-out tale.’
“People might be surprised to see a shelf with almost nothing on it except a copy of Marie Kondo’s ‘The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up,’” says the author, whose new novel is “Either/Or.” “I was able to let go of a lot of shame and self-hatred that turned out to be tied up in my accumulated belongings.”
“I’m not choosy, as long as there’s a psychopath,” says the novelist, whose new book is “The Foundling.”
“I am drawn to the idea of continuing to bear witness to that horrible time,” says the actor, whose new book is “Mean Baby: A Memoir of Growing Up.”
“My family has too many,” says the author, whose latest narrative history is “River of the Gods: Genius, Courage, and Betrayal in the Search for the Source of the Nile.”
“Everything she wrote then matters now,” says the novelist, whose latest book is “The Good Left Undone.” “The great writers can see into the future.”
“I felt I was living through those moments with every word I spoke,” the Oscar-winning actor says of her new memoir, “Finding Me.”
“I feel truer to myself while reading than I do experiencing the world through my body — so any chance to read is ideal for me.”
“My ego says: ‘You’re better than this,’” says the Pulitzer Prize-winning literary critic. “And my id says: ‘Not today. Deal with it.’”
