The New Salon: Fiction Writers in Conversation
Judy Budnitz is the author many works of fiction, including If I Told You Once, which won the Edward Lewis Wallant Award and was short-listed for the Orange Prize.
In conversation with Darin Strauss
In conversation with Darin Strauss
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Lillian Vernon Creative Writers House, 58 West 10th Street, between 5th and 6th Avenues
 | Judy Budnitz was born in 1973 and grew up in Atlanta, Georgia. She is
the author of a novel, If I Told You Once (Flamingo/Picador US) which
was shortlisted for the Orange Prize, and two short story collections:
Flying Leap(Flamingo/Picador US) and Nice Big American Baby
(HarperPerennial/Vintage US).
She has received grants from the Lannan Foundation and the National
Endowment for the Arts. from "Nadia," a story in Nice Big American Baby Copyright by Judy Budnitz Our friend Joel got one of those mail-order brides. It was all perfectly legitimate: he made some calls, looked through the catalogs, comparison-shopped. He filled out the forms without lying about his income or his height. Where it asked “marital status?” he wrote “divorced!” and “when she left me I threw my ring into the sea.” “That’s so romantic,” we all said when he did it. “No it wasn’t, it was stupid,” he said. “I could have sold that ring for a lot of money.” We insisted, “No, it’s very romantic.” “Do you think?” “Any woman would want you now,” we said as we put on bathing suits and diving masks and headed down to the beach. |
