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...offer myself as the most sophisticated social critic. It's a question of the degree to which you want to alienate your audience." Plainly, alienation does not stand much of a chance with Turow. "I hoped that the wives of corporate lawyers would be able to read this book," he says. One L has already proven ten times more successful than Turow originally expected it would be, he says...
...vanity in the end--I feel very funny about answering questions again and again about the book and about the Law School, but if you write, you just want people to listen to you," Turow says, answering a question concerning the amount of time he takes off from school to lecture and give interviews. Oh yes: "And me being a creative writer, seeking the truth is also part of the enterprise...
...desire that One L be commercially successful strongly influenced the way in which Turow wrote the book. "I wasn't trying to imitate James Joyce," he says with sincerity. "A lot of the characters are flat deliberately. I could have written more of a novel, where more of the characters have deep internal lives, but I'm proud of the book I wrote. The only character in One L with a deep internal life...
...Some of Turow's classmates and professors at the Law School suggest he may have been too willing to sacrifice accuracy for that commercial success. A friend in Turow's 1L section, who asked not to be identified, said, "The thing I wonder about Scott is, he came to the Law School with a contract from his publishers, so he knew he was writing the book right from the start. During our 1L year he formed a study group known for writing big outlines, and I think the group actually created tension in our section. I don't know that...
...Turow acknowledges this criticism, but disagrees. Sort of. "A lot of my classmates think I did exaggerate the grade competitiveness. My own response is that I think there's poetic truth in One L"--not bad, for a book Turow himself deems too flat and stereotyped to call a novel. "People claim not be as conscious of grades, not to feel those pressures. My own sense is that I really got to the genie of Harvard Law School. The genius. The germ...