Thursday, June 5, 2008

Who wrote the book of love?

This was a fun story to write, and I love it for several reasons. Dr. Yudit Greenberg is absolutely brilliant, witty and fun to talk to, and the idea of scholarly apparatus being applied to something as elusive as love was intriguing. (I also enjoy timing stories to the season: It came out right before Valentine's Day...)
I liked playing with metaphors that would describe her work accurately and also wink at the reader, and I think it reads a bit like those wonderful "Talk of the Town" pieces in the New Yorker. (Hint, hint, David Remnick...) :)

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