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‘How Dead Is the Book Business?’; Bring Out Your Best Books Lists – Entertainment – The Atlantic Wire.

The 97-year-old novelist of such books as The Caine Mutiny has been around long enough to have met Simon and Schuster (“they were as different as chalk and cheese,” he recalls). Yet his interests aren’t trapped in amber, and he’s still tackling modern life in his fiction. His latest offering, The Lawgiver, incorporates texts, e-mails, transcripts from Skype sessions into the narrative. When asked if he plans to keeping writing, Wouk says, “What am I going to do? Sit around and wait a year? … Sometimes, when I’m down, I feel like I’ve shot my bolt. But it passes, and I go back to the computer.” You listening, Philip Roth?  [The New York Times]

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