WERTHEIMER: Perhaps we ought to mention that you have two children as well. It's just that I'm so not present in the finished work. So in some ways, this is writing what I know.
And most of my clients and most of my colleagues were also women. I worked in fashion magazines where my bosses and my colleagues were women. I went to a liberal arts college where most of my classmates and, indeed, many of my professors were women. And so my friends tended to be girls on the playground. That said, there is a lot of my experience in this book. Being a writer of Indian descent in particular, I felt a desire to avoid the pressure to deliver something that adhered to some larger critical notion of what it is that writers of Indian descent ought to write about in this country. And I just did not feel that that was something that interested me. Is it useful when you're trying to see yourself in your characters? Or did you do that?ĪLAM: Certainly, many writers have been able to wring beautiful work out of the stuff of their own lives. And I'm wondering what you think about that. WERTHEIMER: There's an old notion that writers should write about what they know. And it's not a very honorable profession, I'm afraid. Of the writer of fiction is to listen and to steal and to lie. And you are a guy.ĪLAM: Well, that's one of my favorite things to hear from a reader, particularly a reader who is, herself, a woman. WERTHEIMER: I have to tell you - you have a nearly flawless ear for the way women talk. RUMAAN ALAM: Thank you so much for having me. Rumaan Alam wrote "Rich And Pretty." And he joins us now from our New York City bureau. One of the girls overheard - you take rich. The book is called "Rich And Pretty," a reference to the two friends meeting two guys. Sarah and Lauren are at a milestone in their lives when the book begins. Best friends forever had not been invented yet.
It's the story of two women who have been friends for decades, since sitting next each other, aged 11, at an orientation meeting at a classy private school.
Next, we have a novel about women and their friendships.
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