Tennis teaches you not to be distracted from being in the very present at every moment that you're out there competing.
It's more important to be present in life than even on a tennis court.
That's eight time Grand Slam champion Andre Agassi on everything and nothing to do with tennis.
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From the New York Times, this is the interview.
I'm David Marchese.
The arrival of Sally Rooney's new novel Intermezzo this month is absolutely one of the fall's biggest publishing events,
not only for all the readers hungry for new fiction from the 33 year old Irish author,
and that includes myself, but for all the book lovers again, myself included,
eager for the flood of think pieces and commentary that Intermezzo will surely sp.
Rooney is one of those rare authors who's been able to earn a mass readership as well as serious critical attention.
Maybe I should just say attention, period.
The popular success is on some level easier to understand.
Her four novels are beautifully written relationship studies,
someone else might dare call them, romances that weave together politics,
sex, moral philosophy, dry humor, and a distinctly millennial unease with the state of the world.
It's a compelling combo, one that found an even broader fan base after her first two novels,
Conversations With Friends and Normal People, were adapted into buzzy TV series.
The lightning rod aspect to Rooney and her work is a little more mysterious.
I'm sure any writer who gets held up like Rooney does,