In the past couple years, everything for me has revolved around nonfiction. Specifically European nonfiction, but some American and British writers as well. Part of that, I think, was just moving to Berlin and being so overwhelmed by the history of the place, and where to start to be able to understand it all, but a lot of it was also the Smart Set column, which my editor and I decided to focus entirely on nonfiction rather than fiction. I mean, what are you going to say about a Junot Diaz book for 3000 words? Those novels, and the ideas behind them, didn't really seem substantial enough that I would want to sit down and focus on them for that amount of time.
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