Homes’ Great Essay, On Adoption, Biology … Plus

Three years ago, A.M. Homes published a personal essay in The New Yorker called “The Mistress’s Daughter.” For a fiction writer, the inward turn was surprising, but this was no sappy, brooding piece of work; it was the story of Ms. Homes discovering her birth parents. Or, rather, being discovered by her birth parents, a Read More

Sexy Novelist A.M. Homes Could Hurt a Guy Like Me

The novelist A.M. Homes meets me for lunch on 10th Street. She’s dark-haired and pretty, in a blue blazer and lavender shirt, and has a dryly jocular air. When a tall television personality comes into the restaurant and finds his lunch partner, a blonde, Ms. Homes looks at them assessingly and turns to the subject Read More