Mucking Up Those Sandbox Sales
Anne Roiphe recalls how unhappy family members were with her 1970 novel Up the Sandbox!
At the age of 79, Anne Roiphe has just published her tenth novel, Ballad of the Black and Blue Mind. She’s got at least one more planned, and next winter, when daughter Katie’s novel The Violet Hour arrives, it will be dedicated to mom.
Looking back on six decades of journalism, literature and life in Publishers Weekly, Roiphe shares one blazing memory after another. Including this one about her celebrated 1970 sophomore effort Up the Sandbox!, made into a movie starring Barbra Streisand two years later:
I received a call from my editor.
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