Anna Metcalfe of the Financial Times put a few questions to Hustvedt, including:
Read the entire Q & A.What book changed your life?
Crime and Punishment by Dostoyevsky. It's a book of overwhelming feeling and of the relentless interrogation of ideas.
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What book would you give to someone who had time-travelled from another era, to paint a picture of the 21st century?
Don DeLillo's Underworld . He has a tremendous gift for insight into contemporary western culture.
--Marshal Zeringue