[But is there another 22-year-old actress
so focused on staying fully clothed?]
so focused on staying fully clothed?]
The conversation I’d longed to have with him since I first read him many decades ago, a conversation about fiction itself, died an early death.“I’ve stopped reading fiction. I don’t read it at all. I read other things: history, biography. I don’t have the same interest in fiction that I once did.”How so?“I don’t know. I wised up ... ”And with those three words he gave me a long look from those fierce eyes and then a significant glance at my notebook, as if to say: that’s what I want you to write down.