Judith Guest talks about “the terror of chance,” taking what you want, manufacturing religion, the problem with Republicans ... and how a 40-year-old author with three kids and no agent made it big
That last bit about making it big? Judith Guest would never say that. She’s way too humble. But it’s true, she made it big. Really big. And she did talk about the complexities of that reality with me twenty years ago. Since I recently revisited my twenty-year-old interview with Louise Erdrich, I figured I should also revisit that long, intimate day I s…