It's nice when critics say 'Emperor of the Air' is an important book of stories.

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• Ethan Canin:

  Fame is a problem of perspective.

• Ethan Canin:

  I was never writing for commercial success. It's nice that it has come, but it is not important.

• Ethan Canin:

  In medical school, you're taught to write in this convoluted, Latinate way. I knew the vocabulary a

• Ethan Canin:

  I don't have a pen name, so I'm thinking of getting a doctor's name. What would you call that, a st

• Ethan Canin:

  I like certain people's work better than my own.

• Ethan Canin:

  It used to be you sat up in your attic and wrote and went down to a local cafe and talked with peop

• Ethan Canin:

  Books were king, but now movies are king, and books are sort of ignored. So now there's no sense of

• Ethan Canin:

  What's more interesting than the arc of lives?

• Ethan Canin:

  'How does your life turn out?' That's the ultimate novelistic question to me.

• Ethan Canin:

  I don't think success makes one confident. I think it has more to do with character than circumstan