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PHOTOGRAPHS BY DAVID HARRISON/NEWSCOM<br />
DIRECTIONS | DECEMBER <strong>2009</strong><br />
whereabouts 39<br />
The Places I Go:<br />
P.D. James<br />
“I’VE TRAVELED TO so many<br />
different countries promoting<br />
my books, but the place I’ve felt<br />
most at home is America, and my<br />
favorite city there is Boston. It’s a<br />
very English city, and that’s such<br />
a funny thing to say, because<br />
we don’t travel to other places<br />
to fi nd more Englishness! But<br />
there’s so much history there,<br />
and I loved the architecture.<br />
There’s something very special<br />
about Boston. It combines all the<br />
activity of a big city with a kind<br />
of intellectual peace.<br />
“I was there for three months<br />
teaching creative writing at<br />
Boston University. I really<br />
enjoyed the historic sites such as<br />
the Paul Revere House and the<br />
State Capitol. It’s a very walkable<br />
city. I remember going across the<br />
bridge to Harvard University,<br />
which is a very attractive<br />
campus. And we went down<br />
to Cape Cod and visited<br />
Nantucket, where the houses<br />
have widow’s walks around<br />
them. It’s just lovely.”<br />
P.D. James’ latest book,<br />
Talking About Detective Fiction,<br />
will be released this month.
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