“The life we lead as writers is awful—it’s boring, tedious, lonely,” says Vivian Gornick. “But when it’s working, there’s nothing in the world that compares.” In this installment of the Paris Review’s “My First Time” series, Gornick discusses the experience of writing and publishing her first book, In Search of Ali Mahmoud: An American Woman in Egypt.
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