Katie Rigney-zimmermann
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Jean Hanff Korelitz:
Is the character Naomi Roth the same in The Sabbathday River and The Devil and Webster?
Jean Hanff Korelitz
Yes! Well spotted! But there's a missing decade in there somewhere. I had to make it disappear in order to get the time periods to line up, otherwise the college-aged daughter in THE DEVIL AND WEBSTER would have been in her thirties...
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Malcolm
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Jean Hanff Korelitz:
I loved “The Latecomer.” Curious about two things: 1. With so many factual references, why does Rochelle’s Long Island hometown have a fictional name—Ellesmere? 2. With so much namedropping of colleges, especially Ivys, why only two about Penn—both of them derogatory? Trump? (Ok, I admit it, I’m a Long Island boy who went to Penn after transferring from Nassau Community College.)
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