Soon after she appears on Zoom, writer Gillian Flynn tilts her laptop to offer a tour of her office. The room, on the ground floor of her home in the Lincoln Park neighborhood of Chicago, isn’t cramped per se—there is ample space for a fireplace, a pair of bookshelves, a treadmill desk and a traditional one—and yet it seems too small to contain Flynn, who is a host in herself. Since publishing her first novel, Sharp Objects, in 2006, Flynn has been adding hyphens to her job description. Not only is she a bestselling author,...

Source: Wall Street Journal September 21, 2020 12:33 UTC