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Jean Hanff Korelitz:
As a Grinnell grad, I was delighted to see the college mentioned in The Latecomer and Admissions. Do you have a connection?
Jean Hanff Korelitz
Nope, except that it's a perennial in Colleges That Change Lives and the great poet Amy Clampitt went there.
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Malcolm
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Jean Hanff Korelitz:
I loved “The Latecomer.” Curious about two things: 1. With so many factual references, why does Rochelle’s Long Island hometown have a fictional name—Ellesmere? 2. With so much namedropping of colleges, especially Ivys, why only two about Penn—both of them derogatory? Trump? (Ok, I admit it, I’m a Long Island boy who went to Penn after transferring from Nassau Community College.)
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