Rachel Aydt
teaches writing at the New School University and the Writing Institute at Sarah Lawrence College.
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala's At the End of the Century
By Rachel AydtThe writer Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (1927 – 2013) lived a life that spanned numerous wars and traversed the globe. She wrote novels and screenplays; Heat and Dust, her eighth, garnered the Man Booker Prize in 1975, and her E.M. Forster-adapted screenplays, A Room with a View and Howards End, both won Oscars. This month brings her posthumous collection of stories into the world, At the End of the Century (Counterpoint Press, 2018).
In Conversation
SARAH McCOLL in conversation with Rachel Aydt
It’s an investigation into deep grief and what shapes us, but also it’s a study in observational precision and the moments that add up to a life well-lived.
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