Nicole Krauss at Talking Volumes - Minneapolis Star Tribune (blog) - Claude Peck - ‎

Nicole Krauss signed books Oct. 28 at the Fitzgerald Theater in St. Paul. Softspoken but eloquent novelist Nicole Krauss talked about books, including her own new novel, at a Talking Volumes event at the Fitzgerald Theater Thursday night. Krauss, whose third novel "Great House," has been named a fiction finalist by the National Book Award, said that the book grew from a short story she wrote a couple of years ago. Her writing does not depend on an outline, she said, and she has little idea at the outset where the novel will end up. "I make the doorknob first, then the door, and the room," she said in describing her writing process. "Only much later do you step back and see the whole house."

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