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It's not really possible to open 'The Casual Vacancy' without a lot of expectations both high and low crashing around in your brain and distorting your vision. There's no point pretending they're not there.

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I have spent many, many hours reading J.K. Rowling's work. I am a known 'Harry Potter' fan.

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A lot of young-adult authors, great ones, have tried their hands at literary fiction, and not a lot of them have succeeded. Not even Roald Dahl could switch-hit, and not for lack of trying.

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What surprised me about 'The Casual Vacancy' was not just how good it was, but the particular way in which it was good.

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When I left college I thought - based on a staggeringly inadequate understanding of how the world worked - that I might like to go into book publishing.

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I'm happy to report that 'The New Press' is still in business to this day. But not thanks to me. I was a really bad publishing intern.

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Becoming an author changes your attitude too. Once you see where books come from, and how they're made, they never seem quite as sacred again.

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I mean, when you're tired of book reviews, you're tired of life.

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I love rare books. Not that I own a lot of them, mind you. You couldn't quite call me a rare-book collector. But I did once work in a rare-books library, and I wrote a novel about a rare book.

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My specialty as a collector is books that almost have value. When I love a book, I don't buy the first edition, because those have become incredibly expensive. But I might buy a beat-up copy of the second edition, third printing, which looks almost exactly the same as the first edition except that a couple of typos have been fixed.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Novelist

Born: June 26th, 1969

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