Borrowed Names Interview with Bethany Hegedus

Now and then I give talks to aspiring writers and other people. One leaves lecture platforms as we mostly leave classrooms, our books, or just about anything --say, parenting -- wondering what the heck, if anything, got through. I was lucky enough to have one listener approach me years later and tell me that my words had mattered to her. Bethany Hegedus and I are now friends and colleagues, and it was a thrill to read her first novel, Between Us Baxters, which is about friendships in a small...