something i read today that i enjoyed enough to share with you...

This is a lovely interview/profile piece about the wife of literary critic James Wood, the novelist Claire Messud, who I'm embarrassed to say I hadn't heard of before today.

It's certainly worth the fifteen or so minutes required to give it a read, and I'll now be adding some Messud works to my every-growing reading list.

The final paragraphs are particularly enjoyable for those of us who by turns battle and embrace our all-too-human contradictions.