The Author of You Won’t Get Free of It Takes the Lit Hub Questionnaire
Rachel Aviv’s new book, You Won’t Get Free of It, is available now from Alfred A. Knopf, so we asked her a few questions about writer’s block, writing routines, favorite books, and more.
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What was the first book you fell in love with?
There were a lot of YA novels I fell in love with (everything by Katherine Paterson), but as an adult I think the first novel was Richard Yates’s Revolutionary Road. I haven’t read that book since college, and I think it would not actually age well—I read all of Yates’s other books, hoping for the same experience as I had with Revolutionary Road, but it didn’t happen. At age twenty, though, I somehow felt that his description of a marriage in the 1950s explained everything to me about my high school/college relationship and basically my soul. I couldn’t function after reading it.
