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...characters in your latest novel come from all over the world, with very different backgrounds. Do you relate to any of them better than others...
...think that the only responsibility the novelist has is to the novel. I think that the notion that you would portray something as it really is in fiction is not exactly right. I think that fiction is not about portraying its topics with fact-checkable verisimilitude so much as understanding the sense of a place. And in that I think the trick is to be loyal to one’s own sensibility as a writer rather than any ideas about truth, which are really up for debate...
...important one is to not take myself too seriously, and not take the writing too serious, and to approach it with a sense of humor and a grain of salt, and remember that they are just characters in what is trying to be a campus spy novel. So that was an important part of it, not to get puffed up. And the other expectations were about good writing and making for an interesting page-turner...
...Susan Lowell, a professor in “An Expensive Education,” has a thing for her advisee David from the start of the novel. Were you ever hot for one of your teachers...
...noticed that you mentioned Fifteen Minutes on page 92 of the novel. Did you read...