Stray Questions for Mona Simpson

I’ve never felt powerful enough to write a true political novel, or deeply knowledgeable enough to draw a character like, say, Tolstoy’s Prince Kutuzov. I can more easily imagine writing books with characters on the outskirts of a political moment, as in “Sentimental Education,” but even in that book full of history I’m most drawn to the scene inside the room where Rosanette loses her virginity – the leisurely pacing, the ominous couch and the man to whom her mother has sold her picking at the food.

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