![]() ![]() “What’s helping me is you gotta realize reviewers read books every week, and a lot of them aren’t very interesting, and they’re not very well done,” he said in a phone interview from the study of his house in Sag Harbor, where he is surrounded by maps of Partisan battle lines and vintage photos of pre-war Europe turned up in the course of his research. ![]() The remarkable thing talking to Furst, who is 69, is just how unmysterious he is about his alchemical technique, and about the attributes that have allowed him to succeed with such remarkable consistency: a long attention span, a lack of pretention about his art, and an above-average work ethic. You’re always writing the book you’d want to read, if you’re a writer.” It was never my goal to do anything but write commercial genre fiction, but to write it at a very high level. He also said, “These are commercial novels. I bet you couldn’t do it if you intended for it to happen.” ![]() “I take everything with a grain of salt but I do think that for whatever reason people who write reviews like these books, really like them. “I don’t know what to say-it’s not anything I ever expected,” he said. ![]()
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