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Arts Feb 26

‘The Wife’ author Meg Wolitzer answers your questions

Arts Feb 19

An annotated page from Meg Wolitzer’s ‘The Wife’

Author Meg Wolitzer explains where she gets her settings and stories, why she set the book in the first person, and how she creates humor on the page.

By Elizabeth Flock

Arts Feb 12

Meg Wolitzer attends the East Hampton Summer Screening Of "The Wife" at Guild Hall on July 22, 2018 in East Hampton, New York. Photo by Patrick McMullan/Patrick McMullan via Getty Images
Author Meg Wolitzer’s best advice: Write what’s important to you

Wolitzer, author of "The Wife," says that in hearing a writing instructor tell the class to write what was important, she started to ask her 19-year-old self, "What’s important to me?"…

By Elizabeth Flock

Arts Feb 04

Discussion questions for ‘The Wife’

Our February pick for the PBS NewsHour-New York Times book club is Meg Wolitzer's "The Wife." Here are discussion questions to guide your reading.

By Elizabeth Flock

Arts Jan 29

February’s pick for the PBS NewsHour-New York Times book club is ‘The Wife’

Meg Wolitzer's novel is a darkly funny, intelligent tale of what happens when you decide to stop sacrificing your own talents in service of your spouse's success.

By Elizabeth Flock

Apr 19

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Meg Wolitzer’s new novel explores life-changing importance of female friendship

In her first months of college, a young woman has a harrowing encounter with a male student -- and a life-changing one with an older, renowned feminist writer. Meg Wolitzer's "The Female Persuasion" is about friendship, womanhood, ambition, and other…

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