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Ada Calhoun on Writing About Greatness and Failure

Just the Right Book with Roxanne Coady

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The Importance of Being Alone in the City

"I wanted to be, I wanted to be alone in the city at the time they didn't have enough of a house yet," she says. "There was a real rush to have kids be very independent, very early back then." In one scene your father talks about making Spencer his literary executor and maybe the beneficiary of his will. You say in the book, you were furious and understandably furious. But where was that coming from for your dad?

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