Long ago Glück and her former husband had listened to operas on road trips, but this was her first car trip in many years.
"But you love food, like a gourmand, Louise," I said, and she replied, "All anorexics love food."
Some months earlier, Glück had won the Nobel Prize in Literature. When the Swedish Academy phoned her quite early in the morning with the marvelous news, she was told that she had twenty-five minutes before the world would know.