Authors in August: The Creative Process With Amor Towles

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🗓️ 15 August 2018

⏱️ 59 minutes

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We're halfway through our Authors in August theme, diving delightfully into the waters of literary fiction. Amor Towles, bestselling author of A Gentleman in Moscow, sheds light on his creative process, the current state of the publishing industry, and the world's resurging desire for long-form narrative.

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0:52.0	Well, it is our authors in August theme and it's been a delight for me to bring to you some of my favorite authors of some of my recent favorite books.
1:02.0	So far, our authors in August series for Rule Breaker Investing has introduced us to marketing iconiclast Seth Godin and
1:09.2	gatherings Visionary Priya Parker each of whom as a fellow Rule Breaker challenges the
1:14.2	conventional wisdom of their fields, challenges the status quo, and shares with us
1:18.4	their unconventional and winning wisdom. Well now Rule Breaker's authors in August brings us to another
1:25.2	rule breaker a man who stepped away from a Wall Street research desk in his
1:28.6	mid-40s and became a critically acclaimed novelist. In 2011 Rules of Civility, and he's followed that up most recently
1:37.9	with the enchanting A Gentleman in Moscow in 2016.
1:41.7	Now I doubt this is the case but a gentleman in Moscow almost seems like an
1:46.2	answer to a bar bet or a particularly devilish writing prompt. Can you
1:50.0	produce a 480-page best-selling novel based on the main character being confined largely
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