"“Some of you, however,” begins Nina Sergeevna ominously, “have chosen to write about foreign literature.”"
"Thanks to an editor named Kate Meyers, who read a long proposal I sent to her, cold, without introduction, and gave me an assignment, I started to write about golf for national magazines, then published a book on my love of the game, then, a few years later, a golf novel."
"My agent and friend, Elizabeth Kaplan, who once again pushed me to report and write about what I live and then held my hand all along the way when the living got tough."