Amor Towles on A Gentleman in Moscow and the Writer's Craft

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🗓️ 29 August 2022

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Author Amor Towles talks about his book, A Gentleman in Moscow, with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Along the way they discuss the craft of writing, the wellsprings of persistence, and Towles's reading habits.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Econ Talk, Conversations for the Curious, part of the Library of Economics and Liberty.
0:07.8	I'm your host, Russ Roberts of Shalem College in Jerusalem and Stanford University's Hoover
0:12.7	Institution.
0:13.7	Go to econtalk.org where you can subscribe, comment on this episode and find links down
0:18.6	the information related to today's conversation.
0:21.4	You'll also find our archives, but every episode we've done going back to 2006.
0:26.8	Our email address is mail at econtalk.org.
0:30.3	We'd love to hear from you.
0:37.7	Today's July 28, 2022, and my guest is the novelist, Amor Tolls.
0:42.6	In 2011 at 46, he published his first book, Rules of Civility.
0:46.6	It was a big hit, followed in 2016 by a gentleman in Moscow.
0:51.4	And then in 2021, the link in highway.
0:54.2	All three books are very different and extraordinary in their own way.
0:57.0	I read them all in about a month, having no time for any of them, but read them anyway.
1:02.6	I couldn't put them down.
1:04.6	I would say that for me, a gentleman in Moscow is in a special class, and that book is our
1:09.5	subject for today.
1:10.5	Amor, welcome to econtalk.
1:12.3	Thanks for having me, Russ.
1:14.5	We're going to avoid serious spoilers, though I do encourage everyone to read the book
1:17.5	before listening and then come back to this after you've read the book.
1:21.9	I want to start with the mechanics of writing.
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