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‘Conversations with Friends’ author Sally Rooney answers your questions
Sally Rooney, author of our September pick for the NewsHour-New York Times book club, Now Read This, joins Jeffrey Brown to answer reader questions on “Conversations with Friends,” and Jeff announces the October book selection.
Why Sally Rooney forces herself to slow down as she writes
“I find that when I force myself to slow the pace down a little, I can discover sensory and psychological details I missed or elided in the first draft,” says Rooney, author of "Conversations with Friends."…
Why writer Sally Rooney stopped tying up loose ends in ‘Conversations With Friends’
"Once I identified that impulse, and reasoned myself out of it, I wrote the final scene as it is now – and I felt the novel was finished," Rooney said.
Discussion questions for ‘Conversations with Friends’
Sally Rooney's “Conversations with Friends" is the September pick for our book club in partnership with the New York Times.
"Conversations with Friends" is the debut novel from Irish novelist Sally Rooney, who has been dubbed the "first great millennial author."…
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