Cover Story: Susan Isaacs: The Insider Interview
That's gone—people knowing your taste—and it's been replaced by algorithms. So it's a great loss. But I think it's gotten people reading again.
Tell us about your readers, how you get to know them, how you interact with them?
● This book [her latest, Goldberg Variations] came out October. In November I did Jewish book fairs. It was women my age and younger—fewer older. I used to be getting: 'My mother told me about you and I didn't want to read it but I did and I love you and you're wonderful.' Now I'm getting: 'My grandmother told me…' I'm getting many more women than men. I'm used to women and some gay men [as fans], but now I'm getting younger men because they're not afraid to read a novel with a woman's name on it, and they used to be. Two male authors whom I cannot name both said to me basically the same thing: 'I read you even though you're a girl.'