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“My friend Ron Hansen, the novelist, always says to me: ‘You’re crazy! You know, you did eight months of research and all you got out of it is a story. I would get a four hundred page novel and make a lot more money.’But part of it is also that, you know, it doesn’t feel like drudgery to me. If I’m reading about these subjects, it’s because I’m strange enough to want to be interested in them anyway. So the idea that I have to read yet another book about volcanology doesn’t make my heart sink. It makes me think, ‘Oh, good, I get to do that!’”
Read more of our interview with author Jim Shepard here.
What, you haven’t read Jim Shepard yet? Fix your life.
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