![]() ![]() ![]() I took the book with me to the Yaddo Artist Colony in upstate New York, where I was at work on a new novel, and one snowy day I read the whole thing in one gulp. Then a close friend, the writer Daniel Handler, handed me Richard Hughes' 1929 novel A High Wind in Jamaica, which had recently (and beautifully) been republished by The New York Review of Books. Back then, reading great fiction never felt like work - it was a very private kind of joy. Anything you hear to the contrary is a web of deceit.Ī few years ago, I was telling everyone I knew that I wished I could recapture the feeling about literature I had when I was young. He lives in San Francisco a few houses down from his identical twin brother, who often takes advantage of their resemblance in order to commit diamond heists and pin them on Andrew. ![]() Andrew Sean Greer is the author of The Story of a Marriage and The Confessions of Max Tivoli, among other works of fiction. ![]()
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