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John Grisham is the author of 38 books, including his latest novel, Camino Island.\n\n \u201cA Time to Kill didn\u2019t sell. It just didn\u2019t sell. There was never any talk of going back for a second printing. No talk of paper back. No foreign deal. It was a flop. And I told my wife, I said, \u2018Look, I\u2019m gonna do it one more time. I\u2019m gonna write one more book\u2026hopefully something more commercial, more accessible, more popular. If this doesn\u2019t work, forget this career. Forget this hobby. I\u2019m just gonna be a lawyer and get on with it.\u201d\n\nThanks to Casper, Squarespace, and MailChimp for sponsoring this week's episode.\n@JohnGrisham\njgrisham.com\n[00:30] The Firm (Dell \u2022 2009)\n[00:30] The Pelican Brief: A Novel (Dell \u2022 2010)\n[00:30] The Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a Small Town (Dell \u2022 2012)\n[01:30] Wesley Lowery on the Longform Podcast\n[01:30] Heather Havrilesky on the Longform Podcast\n[01:30] Hua Hsu on the Longform Podcast\n[01:45] Luke Dittrich on the Longform Podcast\n[01:45] Krista Tippett on the Longform Podcast\n[02:15] readthissummer.com\n[08:00] A Time to Kill: A Novel (Dell \u2022 2009)\n[15:15] The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald \u2022 Scribner \u2022 2004)\n[15:15] The Grapes of Wrath (John Steinbeck \u2022 Penguin Classics \u2022 2006)\n[19:45] The Firm\n[23:00] Camino Island: A Novel (Doubleday \u2022 2017)\n[28:45] "The Law-School Scam" (Paul Campos \u2022 Atlantic \u2022 Sep 2014)\n[36:45] Book Tour with John Grisham\n[49:30] Stoner\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices