No one is likely to ask Daniel Mason, “Is Country People really about you?”
His effervescent new novel is about Miles Krzelewski, a perpetual graduate student who’s done little with his life but start and abandon 11 dissertations.
Mason has the opposite problem. He knocked off his bestselling debut novel, The Piano Tuner, in 2002 as he was working on a medical degree. Since then, he’s published several more terrific works of fiction — including, most recently, North Woods — and been a Pulitzer finalist, all while teaching and researching in Stanford University’s psychiatry department.
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