Pull me under book6/24/2023 ![]() ![]() I sometimes wish I were a better bullshitter, but it’s just not in my genetic makeup. I can love a person, not connect with their work at all, and find polite dodges and maneuvers around saying so if indeed my opinion is asked, but I cannot simulate admiration for that which I simply don’t admire. I think this is because she knows - and knows that most other people know, too - that I can’t fake enthusiasm. ![]() Before I set out to interview Kelly Luce - upon the publication of her debut novel, Pull Me Under, out now from FSG - I asked her: should I try to obscure our pre-existing friendship in the interview? I was worried that any praise from me would be read first through the lens of my having known Kelly for years and considering her a kind of big sister. ![]()
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