PW talks to Danielle Ganek: the girl behind the wall: the heroine of Lulu Meets God and Doubts Him writes her way out from behind an art world desk.(Q&A)(Interview)

You participate in the art world as collector and as a philanthropist. How did you come up with the idea of writing about a fashionable young gallery concierge?

I had this character whose voice I kept hearing, who was struggling with her own creative process, and what a scary place that is. But putting her behind the desk, seeing everything from almost an invisible place, allowed her much more of a perspective. A lot of times the young women who work in galleries really are behind stone walls or barriers of some sort. It's as if they disappear: people move through and talk as if nobody were there, but there really is someone who's taking it all in.

Is there …