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Her next book,No Time to Spare, will be a collection of recent essays.
No Time to Spareis due out Dec. 5.
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Since I am now headed toward seventy, this is a long time.
But if I only (only!
had the books, the gift would still be such a great one.
I think that she’s currently having a moment, a moment of recognition and appreciation.
Can I do it, too?
Where other writers secure their legacy with a single book, she’s written a dozen worthy of that.
And her very last novel,Lavinia, is surely among her great works.
She has been both prolific and potent.
She has been both playful and powerful.
We who followed her both as readers and writers are the lucky ones.
We not only love her; we need her."
