Ami
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Pamela Paul:
What writer, living or dead, have you not interviewed for Buy the Book that you would most want to?
Pamela Paul
I love that you've included dead people in your question. If only! And that makes the question almost impossible to answer, at least with a single name. The four that leap immediately to mind, simply because I am in awe of their writing and would love to know more about where they drew their own reading pleasure, inspiration and solace are Edith Wharton, Joseph Conrad, Thomas Mann and George Eliot. I know a bit about what Eliot liked to read, having read her letters. But I'd love to know more.
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Meg Ferrante
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Pamela Paul:
As your kids have gotten older, are they still voracious readers? How do you keep them off devices & keep their noses in the books? (I used to count among my biggest parenting accomplishments that long car rides were peaceful because I'd encouraged three readers, but now they're peaceful because no one will get off their phones. I set a 30min trip-launching read-a-thon and at minute 31, they're done! Waahhhh... )
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