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"   Why did you decide to pick up Loving Frank? I&amp;#039;m really interested in architecture\u2014Frank Lloyd Wright, specifically. My grandparents lived in a house designed in his signature &amp;quot;Prairie style,&amp;quot; and I always liked learning about him as a person. Loving Frank is historical fiction about him and his mistress. His love life was pretty messy. Do you read a lot of historical fiction? I like books that are fiction, but based on a true story. That way you go, &amp;quot;Oh, is this true?&amp;quot; and then you get to Google it.     What&amp;#039;s your ideal fact-to-fiction ratio? It&amp;#039;s better when it&amp;#039;s more steeped in fact, and when all the people and places really existed. In the foreword Loving Frank, Nancy Horan writes about all the research she did\u2014she traveled to Stockholm to research the main character Mamah Borthwick Cheney, Frank Lloyd Wright&amp;#039;s mistress, and how she found all their love letters.  Are you attracted to love stories? Well, it&amp;#039;s not really a romantic story. Frank Lloyd Wright really comes off as a jerk, and of course something really tragic happens in the end. Do have a soft spot for anything other than historical fiction? I love salacious memoirs. I just finished Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls, who used to be the gossip columnist at MSNBC.com. It&amp;#039;s about her growing up on the road with her parents after they pulled her out of school. They didn&amp;#039;t let her get medical treatment and were basically homeless. Now she&amp;#039;s really successful, which when you&amp;#039;re writing a memoir about your shitty childhood, must be nice. She emerged victorious!  You look so comfortable. Where did you get your sweater from? It&amp;#039;s my boyfriend&amp;#039;s, from Brooks Brothers. Do you wear his clothes often? Yeah, I do! Then I return it, he dry cleans it, and I get to steal it again. Photo: Angela Bliumis "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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