I suppose my ear had impressed upon it the rhythms of speech that now feel in some way native to me, though I haven't been back to Hursley since we left in 1972. Norris Lamb shaves twenty years off Conrad Morrisey, the protagonist of your first novel. I fear it is a rather odd thing to be a youngish woman who identifies with elderly males. I have a strange sympathy for the mature man, but I haven't any idea at all why that might be. I simply saw Norris as fifty-five.
Every reporter has an unfinished novel in the drawer.
In a way, I think was readying myself for a career as a novelist. These are all fine skills for the writer of fiction to possess. I'm still working on them. Your husband is the novelist John Gregory Brown. Tell us both the advantages and disadvantages of being married to another writer.