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.
Lev GrossmanI guess I was raised in a household with a lot of reverence for the physical sanctity of books. You didn't destroy books.
Lev GrossmanThere's a special gut-check moment the first time you write a scene in which somebody casts a spell.
Lev Grossman