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I'm A Big Philip Roth Fan. I Think "american Pastoral" Is The Great American Novel Of The Past 30 To 40 Years. It's A Novel About What Happened In The 1960s, And I Think America Is Still Dealing With What Happened Then. It's Devastatingly Sad.

I Mean, You Always Want Everybody To Pat You On The Back And Tell You You're Wonderful Every Time You Do Something; I Think That's Human Nature.

Larry Grobel's Interviews Are Informative And Insightful Without Being Pandering Or Intrusive. You Get The Sense At All Times Of Both Intelligence At Work-the Interviewee's And Grobel's-both Inspired By The Encounter.

I Will Read Biographies Or Autobiographies While I'm Writing, But Mostly I Put Books In A To-read Queue, Like Rachel Cusk's New Novel, "outline."

People Are Really Much More Respectful Than They're Made Out To Be And Much More Discerning About The Fact That I'm Not The Character I Play.