It helped so much to be working on something that I felt so connected to.
I was working full time and trying to write the short story collection at the same time, which was really tough. It was fantastic for me - all my previous clients had been in high technology and other types of industries that weren't so directly connected with what I was trying to do. I was assigned to speak with potential advisory council members in advance of their meeting and to compile some of their good advice to present it in ways that would be helpful yet efficient. ABA was exploring the possibility of establishing an industry advisory council Ideascope was called in to help. Our firm worked with companies at moments of transition - figuring out how they were going to use new technology or what they were going to do with some new resource. JO: This was in 1999 and I was working for Ideascope in San Francisco. She swore she was keeping both hands on the wheel.īTW: This probably isn't a question you get asked on your book tour, but - what was the connection between you and ABA? Julie Orringer spoke to BTW while driving on the Ohio Turnpike on her way to Cleveland from Ann Arbor, Michigan, where she had appeared at Shaman Drum Bookshop. Before becoming a published writer, Orringer worked for a small strategic consulting firm, Ideascope, where one of her clients was the American Booksellers Association. Orringer's stories have appeared in The Paris Review, The Yale Review, Ploughshares, The Pushcart Prize anthology, and Zoetrope: All-Story. Welcome one of this fall's freshest and brightest voices."
These nine stories resonate with compassion and intelligence. In his nomination of How to Breathe Under Water for the September/October Book Sense 76, Karl Kilian of Brazos Bookstore in Houston, Texas, wrote: "Orringer's luminous debut collection takes us into the lives of young girls finding their way through the emotional minefields of childhood and adolescence. This debut collection, published by Knopf in September, showcases the considerable talents of Orringer, a graduate of the Iowa Writer's Workshop and Cornell University and a recipient of a Wallace Stegner Fellowship in Creative Writing at Stanford University, where she now teaches. Self-assured and passionate describe both the stories in How to Breathe Underwater and their author, 30-year-old Julie Orringer.
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