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It seems to me that the novel as a medium has a very low signal-to-noise ratio. By which I mean: there are a lot of novels published, but the vast majority of them don't represent major contributions to the medium.

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Every year the literary press praises dozens if not hundreds of novels to the skies, asserting explicitly or implicitly that these books will probably not be suffering water damage in the basements of their authors' houses 20 years from now. But historically, anyway, that's not the way the novelistic ecology works.

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It's a great thing when you feel that you recognize yourself, deeply and movingly, in a work of literature.

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I got my first whiff of what big-time adult literature was all about when I was in 8th grade. I got it from Mark Linn-Baker. You know - the guy from 'Perfect Strangers.'

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I started thinking about the endings of novels not because I think endings are so important, but because I think they're actually not as important as they're sometimes given credit for.

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Oddly, the meanings of books are defined for me much more by their beginnings and middles than they are by their endings.

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I read a lot of literary theory when I was in graduate school, especially about novels, and the best book I ever read about endings was Peter Brooks' 'Reading for the Plot. '

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A novel with a bad middle is a bad book. A bad ending is something I've just gotten in the habit of forgiving.

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Book tours are excellent things, and one is lucky to get to go on one, but they have a way of leeching away one's will to live.

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I don't know if I've ever derived such an immediate sense of calm and well-being from any book as I did from 'Right Ho, Jeeves.' It was like I was Pac-Man and the book was a power-up.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Novelist

Born: June 26th, 1969

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