Apr 09, 2018
How She Did It: On Penelope Fitzgerald, Writing, and Women at Work
Fitzgerald was ground down, I imagine, consumed by how to take care of her family. This didn’t make her any less the thinker, writer, reader, that she was.
Lynn Steger Strong's first novel, HOLD STILL, was released by Liveright/WW Norton in March. She received an MFA from Columbia University where she teaches. She lives in Brooklyn with her family.
Fitzgerald was ground down, I imagine, consumed by how to take care of her family. This didn’t make her any less the thinker, writer, reader, that she was.
I was embarrassed each time I got out my camera.
I want to write about space and time, and feeling like somehow we’ve always had less of it than our male counterparts.
In fiction, one needs motivations, wants, and fears; one needs cause and effect. In life, it’s messier.
On Virginia Woolf, making hats, escapism, and how to write a novel that readers will read.
