November 5th, 2012
elliottholt
In the past few years, I’ve thought often of the Marianne Faithfull song “The Ballad of Lucy Jordan”—“At the age of thirty-seven, she realized she’d never ride through Paris in a sports car, with the warm wind in her hair…”—and I’ve felt little pricks behind my eyes…because Marianne is right that the age of thirty-seven…is a time of reckoning, the time at which you have to acknowledge once and for all that your life has a shape and a horizon, that you’ll probably never be president, or a millionaire, and that if you’re a childless woman, you will quite possibly remain that way.
Claire Messud, The Woman Upstairs (forthcoming from Knopf in April 2013)
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I'm a fiction writer. My first novel YOU ARE ONE OF THEM will be published by The Penguin Press on May 30, 2013. My short stories have been published in The Pushcart Prize XXXV (2011 anthology) and other places. I grew up in Washington, D.C., and have lived in many cities (Moscow, London, Amsterdam, San Francisco, and New York). http://elliottholt.com/

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