Emily Fox Gordon: It Will Come to Me

Emily Fox Gordon, It Will Come to Me. Washington Post. Wednesday, March 11, 2009

Write what you know, novelists are told, which presumably explains why there are so many novels about writers. And, given that so many writers work at universities, why there are so many novels set in universities. Emily Fox Gordon, the author of two memoirs (and a writer who works at a university), has written a first novel about a writer and a university. On the surface, this may seem old hat, but the author manages to confound our expectations, or at least some of them.