From The Believer archives comes this conversation between two novelists — Aleksandar Hemon, author of The Lazarus Project, and Colum McCann, author of Let The Great World Spin.
I want a book to contain a world—indeed the world. Writing is my main means of engagement with the world and I want the scars of that engagement to be left in the language. I write and read with the assumption that literature contains knowledge of human experience that is not available otherwise.
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