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The article reports on Annie Ernaux, the Nobel Prize-winning French novelist and memoirist, who is known for reinventing the memoir genre by focusing on specific periods or episodes in her life, often revisiting incidents across multiple books. Her works blend memory, the narrative present and the time of writing, creating an endless expanding story and her latest work, "The Young Man," delves into her affair with a much younger student.

The article discusses Mccarthy has built a reputation as a recluse. A college dropout and an autodidact, he's largely refused the social and professional obligations that occupy most writers. Like Thomas Pynchon and J.D. Salinger, he eschews interviews. Unlike many writers, he doesn't write book reviews, or lecture, or teach.