![]() Rejected from graduate school, where he hoped to study stories about Vikings, Putnam lands a job at the publishing house Landry, Landry and Bartlett, where he reads and responds to unsolicited manuscripts with names like “The Count of Monte Christmas,” “Tears in the Apple Pie” and “The Laboratory Mice’s Revenge.” The novel, her 22nd, is set in the mid-1950s and follows Simon Putnam, a Jewish guy from Coney Island who has graduated from Harvard with a degree in folklore and mythology. “We have to entertain ourselves somehow,” she said. It is about Ethel and Julius Rosenberg, the C.I.A. Her latest novel, “The Vixen,” which will be published on Tuesday by Harper, is a good example. ![]() “People say, ‘What’s your process?’ My process is allowing my soul to leave my body and enter into the body of another human being. ![]() ![]() ![]() “I hate the word process, I just can’t bear it,” Prose said in an interview. And while her work deals in weighty themes like truth, identity and power, even when she’s writing about breakfast foods, she is not precious about it. During her nearly 50-year career, Prose has published 30 books along with reams of essays, reviews, columns and travelogues on subjects as diverse as Anne Frank, Peggy Guggenheim, Caravaggio and bacon. ![]()
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