When the work is going well, when you talk about individual characters, they do immerse yourself into their identity. People will send me a note saying, listen, this passage in a gentleman o moscow is particularly inciteful to me or thought provoking. And i shared it with my husband,. Or i called my daughter and read it to her. 99 % of the time, when someone says that the passage that they are describing that affected them, that was in ciphl, is something that i never would have said in the course of my own life.
Author Amor Towles talks about his book, A Gentleman in Moscow, with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Along the way they discuss the craft of writing, the wellsprings of persistence, and Towles's reading habits.