Old Flames, New Strains

Roxana Robinson has written a brilliant novel about the complexities of late-in-life love. It felt so real, I had to speak with her to find out more about its origins.

Novelist Roxana Robinson © Beowulf Sheehan; her new novel ©Deborah Copaken

The pandemic sucked in many ways, but one of the more frustrating (if less critical) ways in which it sucked, for me and apparently for others as well, was that, for the first time in my life, I could not read. By which I mean, yes, I could still read read, especially news stories…