
First Draft - Mona Simpson
First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing
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Commitment by Mona Simpson
Diane Aziz's new novel is called Commitment. It tells the story of a single mother's collapse and the fate of her three children after she enters a California State Hospital in the 1970s. She has received a Whiting Writers Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship,. A Lila Wallace Readers Digest Writers Award; an award for the American Academy of Arts and Letters. In 2020, she was named publisher of The Paris Review.
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