College wasn't like the real world. In the real world people dropped names based on their renown. In college, people dropped names based on their obscurity.

" He also says he has been haunted by the decline of Detroit. Not “audience.

The Virgin Suicides has been filmed while Middlesex received the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in addition to being a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award the International Dublin Literary Award and France's Prix Médicis. Jeffrey Kent Eugenides (born March 8 1960) is an American novelist and short story writer. He has written numerous short stories and essays as well as three novels: The Virgin Suicides (1993) Middlesex (2002) and The Marriage Plot (2011).