The secret history book buy5/26/2023 ![]() How has your life changed since the book was published? If the book keeps someone company during a difficult time in their lives, I’m happy. I’ve had some moving letters from people in prison. I’ve also loved hearing from young people who have been inspired to study Classics after reading the book. ![]() ![]() For me, writing a novel doesn’t feel like an address to an audience so much as a direct interaction with one other person - the solitary person who pulls the book off a shelf and reads it, whoever that happens to be - so I’m less concerned with the broader impact of the book than with how it reverberates in the lives of individual readers. Questions from Jenna What has the response of the book over the past 30 years meant to you?ĭonna Tartt: I love that it’s meant something to people - that readers have not only enjoyed wandering around in the imaginal space of the book but have kept returning to it. Below, Tartt answers a few of them, sourced from Read With Jenna members and Jenna herself. ![]() After 30 years, readers like Jenna have racked up quite a few questions. ![]()
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