“Every novel is a failure. You can never achieve what you truly want to achieve. That thing you dreamt on the riverbank is never the thing you achieve when you are back at the writing table.”
–From “The Rumpus Interview with Colum McCann,” who won the National Book Award for Fiction this week for his novel, Let the Great World Spin. You can read our interview with McCann, which we ran back in June, here.
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