“Three of the five candidates [for the National Book Award] in the fiction category were not born in this country; two of those three live abroad. … And what does it mean to write an ‘American’ book, if you don’t need an American address to do it?”
“Three of the five candidates [for the National Book Award] in the fiction category were not born in this country; two of those three live abroad. … And what does it mean to write an ‘American’ book, if you don’t need an American address to do it?”