Understand that if she says she understood James Joyce’s Ulysses she’s just saying that to sound intelligent. See if she got through the first chapter of Fellowship. Let her know what you really think of Murakami. She might give you a glare, as most girls who read do not like to be interrupted. If you take a peek at her mug, the non-dairy creamer is floating on top because she’s kind of engrossed already. She’s the girl reading while waiting in that coffee shop down the street. They can never resist smelling the pages, especially when they are yellow and worn. You see that weird chick sniffing the pages of an old book in a secondhand book shop? That’s the reader. She’s the one lovingly looking over the shelves in the bookstore, the one who quietly cries out when she has found the book she wants. You’ll know that she does because she will always have an unread book in her bag. Date a girl who has a list of books she wants to read, who has had a library card since she was twelve.įind a girl who reads. Date a girl who spends her money on books instead of clothes, who has problems with closet space because she has too many books.

She lives in New York City.moreĭate a girl who reads. Her most recent book is Lovers at the Chameleon Club, Paris 1932. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library, Prose is a former president of PEN American Center, and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. The recipient of numerous grants and honors, including a Guggenheim and a Fulbright, a Director's Fellow at the Dorothy and Lewis B. Her most recent works of nonfiction include the highly acclaimed Anne Frank: The Book, The Life, The Afterlife, and the New York Times bestseller Reading Like a Writer. Her novel A Changed Man won the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, and Blue Angel was a finalist for the National Book Award. Her most recent book is Lovers at the Chame Francine Prose is the author of twenty works of fiction.

Francine Prose is the author of twenty works of fiction.

The Vixen by Francine Prose