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...nothing to prove. But these days, says Abrahamsen, Mo Yan "knows exactly where the lines are and doesn't cross them." Discussion about the drawbacks of the one-child policy, and whether it should be rolled back, is now permissible in China, for example. "I think the reason the book got published now is because it's not controversial anymore," says Abrahamsen. (See photos of the making of modern China...
What's the best book you've read in the past year...
...haven't read a book in a year. I don't read fiction when I'm writing, and it took me a year to write [my new book] Djibouti. I don't like to be reading a book with a certain style while I'm writing one, because I can be influenced by that...
What's your next book about...
...night in 1995, I was standing in a bookstore in Berkeley, Calif., when a Moore image rooted me to the floor--and launched a book. I eventually searched out the shooter, and we became friends. He was an unassuming man with a softly charged voice, who probably didn't weigh 140 lb. But even when he was in his mid-70s, you could see the old Golden Glove boxer and ex-Marine who'd refused to back down. He once modestly said about his work, which he wouldn't have called art, although it unquestionably was: "I project myself into...