Bookworm

John Banville (as Benjamin Black)

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Michael Silverblatt

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Booker Prize-winning novelist John Banville has written the first in a series of thrillers, and he's even taken on an alias or, at least, a nom de plume. Here, he talks about the difference between being a craftsman and being an artist--and the pleasure he feels at taking a vacation from art is palpable.

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John Banville: Irish novelist

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