Literary license

PATRICIA Clarkson’s “Learning to Drive” comes out in August, and former Vogue editor Billy Norwich is receiving congratulations— although he had nothing to do with it. The film’s based on a 2002 New Yorker essay by Katha Pollitt about taking driver’s ed at 52. In 1996, Norwich wrote the novel “Learning to Drive” after “Anna Wintour and I went to driving school together . . . in New York circa 1993. Anna, of course, passed immediately, and I, on the other hand, did not!” He admits the identically titled projects “use driving as a metaphor for getting on with life.” So is Norwich — whose novel, “My Mrs. Brown,” is due in 2016— annoyed by the confusion? “Not at all. I’m taking the high road, to borrow a driving reference.”