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or almost 30 years, Susan
Isaacs has been tickling
America's funny bone and
making us shed an occasional tear
with her best-selling novels, starting
with the wickedly arch-suburban
murder mystery Compromising
Positions. Her 10th novel, Any Place
I Hang My Hat, published this
month by Scribner ($26), is no
exception.
She's even funnier on the phone.
In an interview for the Jewish News
about her career, which includes
being a screenwriter, she touched on
how she creates her varied and
memorable characters.
Isaacs will talk about her new
book at noon Monday, Oct. 18, at
the Metro Detroit Book and Author
Society's fall book luncheon at
Burton Manor in Livonia, along
with three other top
authors.
SI: Oh, no. In fact, my childhood
dream was to become a cowgirl.
After college I had no idea what I
wanted to do. I got a job at
Seventeen magazine, and it was like
being at a school newspaper. I start-
ed out writing advice to lovelorn
girls. At night, I worked as a volun-
teer in local political campaigns. I
also did some freelance political
speechwriting.
But essentially (after marriage to a
lawyer), I was a Long Island house-
wife who decided to try writing a
book. Compromising Positions came
out in 1978, and I had all the good
luck that can happen with a first
novel. It sold in paperback; the for-
eign rights sold; there was a movie
sale. Suddenly, I had a career. My
heroine, Judith Singer, wasn't me,
but I used the Long Island back-
ground.
JN: Is writing an art or a craft for
you?
SI: It's a job — and
that's what sepa-
rates the pros from
the amateurs. Most
people who write
books do it every
day, five days a
week — or six days
when you're really
charged up. Toward
the end of each day,
I will have finally
gotten the voice of
Susan Isaacs:
"I don't want the narrator down.
The real struggle
to be seen as
is
finding that
the Semitic
voice.
I grew up in
queen of
Brooklyn and that's
chick-lit."
where the voice
began. Then I went
to Long Island — I was eastwardly
mobile. I use the voice in different
ways. Sometimes it's like me;
sometimes it can be like a guy. You
have to have a good ear to write
dialogue.
JN: Amy Lincoln, the lead charac-
ter in your new novel, seems to
have the Judith Singer voice and
Jewish world view, even though