The Washington Post, February 20th, 2007
When Jane Smiley sat down to write "Ten Days in the Hills," she found herself confronting a technical problem she'd never faced before: Too much sex. "Uh oh, now I'm really in for it," she thought. At 57, Smiley has been writing for three decades. She'd put plenty of sex in other books, but this one -- first conceived as simply "a novel about sex set in Hollywood" -- turned out to be different, because she'd never made it so central. "There's a lot of problems with making it central," she explains, "and one of them is that it's boring." She mouths this judgment almost silently, as if not to sh...
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