In the Javits Center, the New York home of BookExpo, there was a giant, Dan Brown-sized banner advertising Elizabeth Kostova's second novel The Swan Thieves--which is no surprise, since her first book,The Historian, was a giant breakthrough bestseller. But The Swan Thieves doesn't come out until early next year, and there weren't any advance copies available yet to read, so we didn't do a full interview. She did stop by long enough, though, to say a few words about the upcoming book (which I'll post next week), and to talk about a favorite book from Michigan (where she went to grad school and wrote The Historian):The Undertaking by Thomas Lynch, a professional poet and working undertaker in his small Michigan town. (It's a favorite of mine too, and was on my Michigan list.)
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