“Ferocious minds” surrounded Stacey D’Erasmo as an Editor at the Voice Literary Supplement, where she realized that writers are not “sealed off special dead people who you could never be”, but rather, “grubby living people”. This epiphany empowered D’Erasmo to compose her first novel. Now, many books later, she remains as receptive to revelation as ever, drawing inspiration every day from New York City, her colleagues, and especially her students. “Being with people who are just at the beginning of getting to that first book,” she says, “is actually endlessly wonderful because, for the time we’re in that classroom, we all participate in the same illusion, which is that making these books is the most important thing in the galaxy.”
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