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Julia Glass is the author of six previous books of fiction, including the bestselling Three Junes, winner of the National Book Award, and I See You Everywhere, winner of the Binghamton University John Gardner Fiction Book Award. Other published works include the Kindle Single Chairs in the Rafters and essays in several anthologies. A recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York Foundation for the Arts, and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Glass is a Distinguished Writer in Residence at Emerson College. She lives with her family in Marblehead, Massachusetts.
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What led you to create Three Junes?
Sometimes it's hard for me to think of this novel as something I created,
because I never sat down and planned it out as a whole, the way you might cut
and piece together a suit from a bolt of cloth (as I'd always imagined a novel
gets written). Three Junes grew over several years, like a
tree--organically and at first in odd, sporadic bursts--starting out as a
short story called "Souvenirs," which was based on an experience I had
while traveling in Greece after college. One of the first stories I wrote as an
adult, it was your typical ingenue-abroad, loss-of-innocence tale with a
predictably idyllic setting, and I was hoping to sell it to Cosmopolitan
magazine, where I was working as a copy editor. (In those days, short
stories--some by wonderful writers like Laurie Colwin, Lorrie Moore, and Elinor
Lipman--were a fixture of the magazine. Often, there were two in a single
issue, just as there once were in the New Yorker.) Reportedly, Helen
Gurley Brown read my story but thought the heroine too "privileged"
for her readers--that is, not your good old "mouseburger" COSMO
Girl--so into a drawer it went. A few years later, I looked at the story again
and decided that Paul...
Elizabeth Berg is the author of many bestselling novels, including Open House (an Oprah's Book Club selection), Talk Before Sleep, and The Year of Pleasures, as well as the short story collection The Day I Ate Whatever I... (more)
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