SL_EditorsNote_8_19_Reg4_EditorsNote 8 / 12 / 19 4 : 09 PM Page 1 editor’s note Summer Stories which we conduct so many of our interactions via social media , I tend to fill my summer days with three Quindlen says she’s excited about the opportunity to meet things : water , woods , and words . A perfect readers face to face . Sunday might have me sitting in a creek “ I don’t really have any social - media interactions , ” she told shaded by trees , turning pages of a novel me . “ Don’t tweet , have no Instagram account . … But when I do a such as Michael Chabon’s Summerland , Eliza - book signing , or an event like the book festival , I really like beth Strout’s Olive Kitteridge , or John Updike’s meeting readers . Writing a book is a pretty lonely pursuit : me , Marry Me or The Maples Stories , if the latter two Labradors on the floor , my laptop , a coffee cup . You always counts as a novel . wonder whether anyone is going to care about what you’re To be fair , though , books have become a year - round obsession producing . So to meet people who actually read your work is for yours truly . That’s why I consider myself so fortunate to live thrilling . ” where I do . The Greater Philadelphia Area — Bucks County in Many of the readers I know started their love affair with particular — has a rich literary and artistic heritage , and it’s about books at a young age , but not me ; I don’t think I read a book to get much richer . The Doylestown Historical Society is preparing willingly until I was 20 or 21 . Before then , based solely on my to publish a new biannual literary journal , for example . Also , in experience in high school , I thought every book for adults had October , the Bucks County Book Festival will return to Doylestown to do with coming of age in Victorian England . I’m happy to for two days of author panels , workshops , and lots and lots of have learned otherwise . books . We had the opportunity to interview Philadelphia - born Pulitzer Prize winner Anna Quindlen ( see page 80 ) , who will be Bill Donahue the event’s keynote author . In this strange world of ours , in Editor Reitano Paul by Photograph SUBURBANLIFEMAGAZINE.COM AUGUST 2019 8 |