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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

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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