INTER/E/VIEWS

The narrator of Kate Broad’s debut novel Greenwich is the sheltered daughter of a comfortably middle-class family who can’t come to grips with how good she has it.

Some years ago, a famous writer came to my university to give a talk. It was spring, and the event was in the university’s coliseum, which was packed on one side. The writer read a hilarious essay, and there was a Q&A after.