donna tartt article
https://www.today.com/popculture/books/donna-tartt-secret-history-interview-questions-rcna62501 "There’s no way to build a solid or realistic literary character without putting a good deal of yourself in it. With "The Secret History," my DNA is recognizably twined throughout all the characters — which is only to say that a gesture or a turn of phrase or an intonation of my own voice will unexpectedly conjure up Francis, say, or Henry, and the emotions and ideas that went into creating them. " bacchus euripedes reclaiming art in the age of artifice by jf martel