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How Magnanimous Was A Gesture If One Were Constantly Aware Of Its Magnanimity?

Would-be Novelists Need To Bring Equal Parts Arrogance And Ignorance To The Task Before Them. The Arrogance Is Almost Self-explanatory. Walk Into Any Bookstore Or Library, Calculate How Many Lifetimes The Average Person Would Need To Read All The Fiction Contained Therein. To Think That One Has Anything To Contribute, To Any Genre Or Tradition, Takes Genuine Hubris.

There's A Serendipity To Real Life That The Internet Can't Duplicate. Do You Use The Library? For Anything? Well, Sometimes You End Up Picking Up The Book Next To The One You Were Looking For, And It's That Book That Changes Your Life.

The Competition For The Future Of Crime Fiction Is Fierce, As It Should Be, But Don't Take Your Eyes Off Craig Mcdonald. He's Wily, Talented And-rarest Of The Rare-a True Original. He Writes Melancholy Poetry That Actually Has Melancholy Poets Wandering Around, But Don't Turn Your Backs On Them, Either. I Am Always Eager To See What He's Going To Do Next.

I've Gotten To Do A Lot Of Stuff, Traveled, Worked Hard At My Career.