Next Book:The One I'm Working On

INTERVIEWER

Do you know what your next book will be?

McCULLOUGH

No, I probably won’t know until I finish the present book. It could result from something I’m writing now, or somebody’s chance remark, or something Rosalee and I see while traveling. I’m very interested in the Dome of Santa Maria del Fiora in Florence. I’m fascinated by Brunelleschi and all that was going on in Florence in those years. I love mysteries and the dome is one. It’s still not known how they built it. Yet there it is, built before Columbus sailed.

I’m often asked which is my favorite book and it’s always the same—the one I’m working on. And I feel that now. I really look forward to going out there tomorrow morning and working on chapter three. The time will fly.

Paris Review