“Don’t you think it’s the cheapening and commodification of something rare that we would all like to celebrate in private and at our own time?”
Jeffrey Eugenides, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of the novel Middlesex, and editor of the new anthology My Mistress's Sparrow Is Dead: Great Love Stories, from Chekhov to Munro on why he and his wife have an antipathy for Valentine’s Day.
Hear him say it himself on NPR's ATC