I felt so at ease there.”īardugo, now 44 and living back in Los Angeles, had chosen as her preferred interview location Gold Bug, a Victorian-vibed jewelry-and-curio boutique named for an Edgar Allan Poe short story. “You can’t imagine what it was like for a young Goth kid, this place of stonework and bare branches and darkness and strange wonderful buildings.
“It was cold and gray, and it was in January,” Bardugo said recently, describing the joy of her first visit to campus, as an alienated Los Angeles teenager. Unless, perhaps, you come from California and you hate the sunshine and you are Leigh Bardugo, future fantasy novelist.
There are many things that might attract a potential student to Yale, but the gloom of New Haven’s dead-of-winter aesthetic is not the first that springs to mind.
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