David Wroblewski with Lynn Rosen (BEA) on The Story of Edgar Sawtell

http://www.movingstories.tv/ -- the first in our series of interviews from BookExpo America 2008, our BEA host LYNN ROSEN speaks with this summer's hot find, DAVID WROBLEWSKI about his first novel, ten years in the making -- THE STORY OF EDGAR SAWTELL. This an excerpt from Lynn's blog ... about the pivot from private to *way* public ...

"how arbitrary such boundaries are, between the work-in-progress and the work that is "done." It's never done. You could always do more. But nevertheless, you're finished with it, and it becomes this beautiful, foreign artifact that looks nothing like the stack of laser printer paper you've lived with for so long. Just when it becomes perfectly real to everyone else, it looks least like what you've known it to be as the writer.

Shot live at BookExpo America 2008, courtesy Michael McKenzie at Ecco/HarperCollins; published in Canada by Bond Street Books /Random House of Canada.

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