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In the Days After September 11, I Began My Novel About “the Time Before”

“The Emperor’s Children” is set in what proved to be the last months of a type of privileged innocence. But it’s a novel I could only have written after 9/11.

By Elliot O·Sep 10, 2026
In the Days After September 11, I Began My Novel About “the Time Before”

Originally reported by Vogue.

“The Emperor’s Children” is set in what proved to be the last months of a type of privileged innocence. But it’s a novel I could only have written after 9/11.

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