A well written novel can be a thougt of discovery for all of us, he says. A novel is literally thousands of individual choices from the elements of craft to create this work. He hopes that different people ar coming to it and discovering different things. "I don't know whter I should be happy or sad, but you tell me as to whether we've been delayed"
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.