Donna Tartt on The Secret History

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"I began The Secret History at college and worked on it while I was there. Going to school in New England was a very striking experience for me, and it was for Bret Easton Ellis too. I had at least seen snow before – I don’t think Bret had. To come from a warm place and to go to a cold place – and Vermont was a very cold place – a lot of my very visceral memories of going to school for the first time are powerful with snow, and of very de...