The Blazing World.
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Siri Hustvedt
American novelist, essayist, poet
United States · b. 1955
Arts and letters
Born in Minnesota, Siri Hustvedt, 62, has a PhD from Columbia University. Having published her first novel, The Blindfold, in 1992, she went on to write several novels including What I Loved, The Summer Without Men and The Blazing World, which was longlisted for the Man Booker prize in 2014. Her latest book is A Woman Looking At Men Looking at Women: Essays On Art, Sex And The Mind. She is married to Paul Auster, with whom she has a daughter, and lives in New York.
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The man who asked me directions on the subway seven years ago: I am so sorry for sending you to Queens rather than to the Bronx.
I have a penchant for happiness. I have experienced euphoria before a migraine, which may not count, but I have also felt immense happiness leaning back in a chair in sunlight, puttering in my garden, reading, dancing, immediately after giving birth and when writing.
I would have articulated aloud the comments I too often suppressed out of deference to arrogant, condescending, sexist bores.
I was a floor model briefly at Bloomingdale’s in New York in 1979. I hated it. When no one was watching, I would lock myself in the toilet and read.
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