Well, I’m delighted by the early reaction to The Friend of the Family, which is one of my favorites of own works. In fact, I’m so pleased that I...

Julia, I am right-handed, which would be all right except that I am one of those rare right-handed people who suffers from solodexterous ignoratio, a condition in which the right hand never knows what the left hand is doing. My right hand can be penning a love letter while my left hand is strangling an…