Amor Towles

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🗓️ 21 March 2023

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Amor Towles: Negroni (1 ounce Barr Hill gin, 1 ounce Campari, 1 ounce sweet vermouth with an orange peel) Amor discusses his notebook of story ideas, the piece of hotel stationery that contains the original sketch for A Gentleman in Moscow, the original titles of each of this three books, how he uses the technique of outlining to drive his creative process and the physiological reason it works for him, an editing trick to elevate his work to the best it can be, what he means by 'an Impressionist version of history' and 'timely v timeless', reveals his thoughts on Ewan McGregor starring in A Gentleman in Moscow, talks about his literary influences and favorite books of all time, gives a hint about his next novel, reveals the tradition of Towles Cinema family movie night, and answers some listener questions.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Dedicated with Doug Brunt.
0:04.0	You have just gained access to an exclusive insider's look at the lives and works of some of your favorite authors and hear conversations with the world's greatest writers as they discuss their writing lifestyle, creative process, latest work, and behind the scenes revelations.
0:20.0	Welcome to Dedicated dedicated i'm your host
0:24.8	Doug brunt today we're talking with amor tolls so listeners know i read all the show emails
0:29.4	all the comments on apple and other places amore is the number one most requested author for
0:34.8	this show it's not even close he's the author of Rules of Civility,
0:38.4	a gentleman in Moscow, and most recently the Lincoln Highway, which today is available in
0:43.0	paperback. His avid fans range from Bill Gates to President Obama, to Tom Hanks, to me. Many believe
0:49.5	he's the most talented author working today, and I have said to folks in the past he's the only
0:55.0	living author never to have published a bad sentence anymore it's great to see you
0:59.5	welcome Doug thank you very much I was over the top well I thank you you're well
1:04.8	I did I noted that I said published a bad sentence because I'm sure you've had a
1:09.1	few clunkers in your early drafts but listeners should also know you're one of the hardest working writers I know. And by the time anything gets to print, you've made it stellar. The James Brown of literary fiction. Maybe that should actually be an aspiration. Hardest working man in literary fiction. No, I'm far from that, but yes. Thank you. Well, are you... Great to be here. I's a pleasure and I'm thrilled with your cocktail selection, which is the
1:29.2	Negroni, which comes as no surprise to me.
1:31.7	And you will note that we have Bar Hill gin here, which was a gift from our mutual pal
1:36.9	Chris Bojelian, distilled in Vermont.
1:39.0	Oh, great.
1:40.4	So I'm going to get started on that.
1:41.5	I'm also thrilled to debut on dedicated the oversized ice cube.
1:47.4	Awesome.
1:48.4	Because the crushed ice, I've got to wrestle these things out of here, the crushed ice was not getting it done for these drinks.
1:55.6	I'm sure you've, you would have had that experience in the past.
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