“Anyone who teaches knows that you don't really experience a text until you've taught it, in loving detail, with an intelligent and responsive class.”
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Yes, I've listened to just a few audiobooks - but hope to listen to more. I've wanted to investigate how my own books sound in this format and find the experience of listening, and not reading, quite fascinating.
To be Jewish is to be specifically identified with a history. And if you're not aware of that when you're a child, the whole tradition is lost.
As a teacher at Princeton, I'm surrounded by people who work hard so I just make good use of my time. And I don't really think of it as work - writing a novel, in one sense, is a problem-solving exercise.
It seems disingenuous to ask a writer why she, or he, is writing about a violent subject when the world and history are filled with violence.