My mother and I have been watching all day, and now my father has come home to join us.ĭad and I share the love seat. The only signs of life squawk and jitter inside the massive console TV. The shades are drawn, the apartment dark except for the lunar glow from the kitchen and, in the living room, the flicker of the twelve-inch black-and-white screen. She is a director's fellow at the Center for Scholars and Writers and lives in New York City. Prose is the award-winning author of a dozen works of fiction. The following is excerpted from Francine Prose's latest novel, The Vixen, about a young man tasked with editing a steamy bodice-ripper based on the recent trial and execution of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg-an assignment that will reveal the true cost of entering that seductive, dangerous new world.
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