Portrait of the author, four days before her third novel comes out...

Limelight is out on Thursday. And I have a lot of feelings

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It’s Sunday. I’m in the garden, sitting on my hammock. To quote Homer (Simpson), the air feels good on my neck. I’ve cracked open a Heineken Zero. I’ve just finished writing the first draft of a piece for _____ Magazine. It’s 300 words too long, I need to edit it, and I’m not getting paid f…