84, Charing Cross Road | PW Interviews: Helene Hanff
In the following interview, Steinberg discusses with Hanff her method of self-education and the impact of writing in her life.
The frustrated actress in Helene Hanff, well documented in her autobiographical chronicles: 84, Charing Cross Road, The Duchess of Bloomsbury Street, Underfoot in Show Business, and in her latest work, Q’s Legacy, out this month from Little, Brown (Fiction Forecasts, June 14), gives a bravura performance to raise the curtain on our interview. A pixie with moxie, Hanff takes center-stage in her one-room Manhattan apartment to deliver a mock excoriation of PW and her interviewer in particular.
‘‘I am infuriated that Publishers Weekly is interviewing...
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