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Goodreads asked Pamela Paul:

Where did you get the idea for your most recent book?

Pamela Paul The idea stemmed naturally from the By the Book column, which I started two years ago in the Sunday New York Times Book Review. I have to confess that I always hoped that one day, the columns might be put together to make a book. It just seemed natural to collect the columns together in one place and find a way to make the whole even "bigger" and better than the sum of its parts.

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