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Lev Grossman · History

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Lev Grossman

One already feels like an anachronism, writing novels in the age of what-ever-this-is-the-age-of, but touring to promote them feels doubly anachronistic. The marketplace is showing an increasing intolerance for the time-honored practice of printing information on paper and shipping it around the country.

Age

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Becoming an author changes your attitude too. Once you see where books come from, and how they're made, they never seem quite as sacred again.

Attitude

Lev Grossman

I'm happy to report that 'The New Press' is still in business to this day. But not thanks to me. I was a really bad publishing intern.

Business

Lev Grossman

And I'm not as young as I once was. At my age, I don't have time to be bored.

Age