Quote of the Day (Alice McDermott, on Being Considered ‘A Woman’s Novelist’)

“I've been doing this long enough that I've been 'the soccer mom novelist,' I've certainly been 'the Irish-Catholic novelist,' so to be called a ‘woman’s novelist’ is about the broadest category I've found myself in so far. Maybe if I keep it up I'll be everyone's novelist.” ― American novelist Alice McDermott quoted by Emily Bobrow, “Weekend Confidential: Alice McDermott,” The Wall Street Journal, Oct. 28-29, 2023

The image accompanying this post was taken by Slowking4, showing Alice McDermott reading at the 2018 Gaithersburg Book Festival, May 19, 2018.