Nell Zink Quotes


I saw a cardinal when I was in Brooklyn, and I was almost moved to tears. I was, like, 'I can't believe this thing is legal. I can't believe this thing is in the wild. How did this happen? How has someone not killed them all? They're so conspicuous. They're gorgeous. How can they still be alive?'


Citations

Schulz, Kathryn. "Outside In." The New Yorker, 18 May 2015.

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Nell Zink
Nell Zink
  • Born:
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: Novelist

Nell Zink (born 1964) is a US writer living in Germany. After being a long term penpal of Avner Shats, she came to prominence in her fifties with the help of Jonathan Franzen and her novel, Mislaid, was longlisted for the National Book Award. The Wallcreeper was released in the US by the independent press Dorothy and named one of 100 notable books of 2014 by The New York Times. Zink then released Nicotine, Private Novelist and Doxology, all published by Ecco Press.